Geok Tepe, massacre, 1881 24
Helicopter attacks on villages 256
Mass graves at Bamyan and Herat 76
Mine Action Coordination Centre 235
Western propaganda successfully portrays Russians as particularly brutal 234
Auckland Lord (1784–1849), Governor General of India 21
Aushev Ruslan, officer, Hero of Soviet Union 207–8, 257–9, 269, 326
Babadzhan General, Afghan staff officer 87
Babchenko Sasha, Soviet youth adviser 164, 166
Babur (1483–1530), Moghul emperor 27
Buried in Kabul 12
Badaber, PoW camp in Pakistan 265–6, 269
Badakhshan, Afghan province 171, 176
Badarak, village in Pandsher valley 261
Bagram air base 54, 68, 206–7, 216, 261
Last Soviet aircraft depart 290
Soviet paratroopers sent to guard 57
Baikonur, Soviet cosmodrome 78
Bakharak, Base of 1st Battalion of 860th Regiment 177–81, 199, 284, 321
“Bakharak Massacre” 209
Bakhturin Colonel, security officer at Soviet embassy 68
Baku, capital of Azerbaijan 309
Bala Hissar, castle 26, 53
Balashikha, KGB training centre outside Moscow 69
Balashin Abdullah, Turkmen spy 261
Balkh, ancient Afghan city 29, 86
Bamyan, Afghan province 206
BAPO, military propaganda unit 156
Bards, soldier singers and poets 138, 193
Baryatinski Prince, warns of British aggression 22
Basir, mujahedin leader 334
Batalionnaya Razvedka, popular soldiers’ song 194
Bekovich Captain Alexander, failed expedition to Khiva 18–19
Bennigsen General, thinks Russian campaign against India impracticable 20
Bessus, Persian pretender 216
Bhutto Benazir (1953–2007), Pakistani Prime Minister 32, 260
Bizyukov Major Nikolai, killed in Herat rising 45
Black Tulip
Aircraft (AN-12) bringing bodies of fallen back from Afghanistan 192, 253–5
Song about the returning dead 192, 253
Blinushov, Andrei, soldier 237, 254–6
Blowpipe, British anti-aircraft missile 203
BMP infantry fighting vehicle 197, 220
Bogdanov General, plans invasion of Afghanistan 45, 54, 68–9
Bogomolov, Professor Oleg 108
Bonapartism 309
Bonner Yelena, Soviet civil rights activist 108
Borovik Artem, Soviet journalist 61
Boyarinov Colonel Grigori, special forces commander 56, 92, 94, 97–9, 116
Brezhnev Doctrine 112
Brezhnev Leonid (1906–82), Soviet politician 77, 270, 324
Congratulates Karmal 104
Death, November 1982 271
Health begins to fail 46
Hopes for detente 46
Learns of Communist coup 42
Looks for way out of Afghanistan 270
Meets Taraki 52
Opposes intervention 49
Orders condign punishment for atrocity 229
Upset by murder of Taraki 73, 80
Row with Daud 33
Visits Afghanistan in 1964 33
Warns Taraki about Amin 62
Brzezinski Zbigniew, US National Security Advisor 111, 114, 333
Believes Afghanistan unlikely to become Soviet Vietnam 113
BTR armoured personnel carrier 135, 157, 193, 197, 292
Bukhara, Central Asian city 19, 21–2
Burnes Alexander (1805–41), British representative murdered in Kabul 21, 25
Bush George H W (1924-), US President 258, 304
Bystrov Nikolai, Soviet soldier, becomes Masud’s bodyguard 261–2
Carter Doctrine 113
Carter Jimmy (1924-), US President 112–14, 333
Casualties 226
Accidental deaths written off as battle casualties 177
Comparison between Kabul and Panama City 107
Deliberate attempt to reduce Soviet casualties 142–3
Disproportion between military and civilian casualties 328
During fighting around Russian parliament, 1993 312
Formula for calculating mujaheddin losses 222
Rapid evacuation from battlefield 175
Soviet casualties peak before Gorbachev comes to power 272
Soviet, in 1st period of war 140
Soviet, in 2nd period of war 142
Soviet, in 3rd phase of war 142
Soviet, in fourth phase of war 143
Cavagnari Louis (1841–79), British representative murdered in Kabul 25
Chagcharan, Afghan town 164, 207
Charikar, Afghan town 26, 206–7, 217
Chayavu, Masud’s prison 262
Chechnya, region of Russia 175, 258, 263, 322, 327
Chernavin Admiral Vladimir, Commander-in-Chief of Soviet Navy 310
Chernyaev Anatoli, Gorbachev’s diplomatic adviser 281, 288
