title: PDPA’s Policy Towards the Area of the Afghanistan’s Pashtun Tribes (1978–1992 Years): Strategy, Problems and Results
abstract: The article is devoted to the analysis of the People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan’s (PDPA) policy towards the Afghan part of Pashtun Tribal area and covers the period from PDPA’s obtaining power in 1978 till it was dismantled in 1992. Evolution of the PDPA’s policy towards the Pashtun Tribal area fluctuating from disregard of Kabul to the tribes to repressions and attempts to win them over afterwards is examined not only on the basis Soviet sources but also on Afghan ones (for example, PDPA
journal: Izvestia of Smolensk State University