Title: Leftist movements in Afghanistan : part I : Red flag over the Hindu Kush / by Louis Dupree.
Abstract: 2/LD-2-'79 Jalalabad.11His third son, Amanullah, acting regent in Kabul, seized power and launched a series of political and social reforms. 1 2 Amanullah: The Soviet Gambit Begins (1919-1929) In the ten short years of Amanullah's rule, the complexion of politics in Central Asia changed irrevocably.In May, just three months after seizing power, Amanullah fired the opening shots in the month-long Third Anglo-Afghan War, by which he hoped to gain national solidarity and head off efforts by kinsmen to replace him on the throne. 13The military results were inconclusive, 14 but politically the Afghans gained the right to conduct their own foreign affairs, a major victory won with the signing of the Rawalpindi Peace Treaty (August 8, 1919), and the subsequent Kabul treaty normalizing relations with 15 British India (November 22, 1921 ).