Abstract
Daoud’s decade of power from 1953 to 1963 had brought important changes in Afghan society as well as in the economy. Although critics of Daoud often asserted that he was interested solely in economic development to the exclusion of social reform, much in that area too had been accomplished by the end of the decade.
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Notes
See L. Dupree and Albert, Afghanistan in the 1970s (Praeger, USA, 1974) pp. 60 ff.
See Baqui Yousefzai, ‘Kabul University students — a potential political force?’, in L. Dupree and Albert (eds), op. cit. (1974).
A cogent study of problems facing Prime Ministers is also in R. Newell, The Politics of Afghanistan (Cornell, USA, 1972).
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Hyman, A. (1992). The New Democracy and its Limitations. In: Afghanistan under Soviet Domination, 1964–91. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21948-3_4
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