People of the Soviet war in Afghanistan: Osama bin Laden, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, Ahmad Shah Massoud, Leonid Brezhnev

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 122. Chapters: Osama bin Laden, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, Ahmad Shah Massoud, Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, Mohammed Omar, Konstantin Chernenko, Abdul Rashid Dostum, Mohammad Najibullah, Babrak Karmal, Burhanuddin Rabbani, Hafizullah Amin, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Ismail Khan, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, Charlie Wilson, Rahimuddin Khan, Mohammed Fahim, Jalaluddin Haqqani, Abdul Haq, Shahnawaz Tanai, George Crile III, Sultan Ali Keshtmand, Lee Shapiro, Gordon J. Humphrey, Mohammad Hasan Sharq, Milton Bearden, Gust Avrakotos, Haji Mohammad Chamkani, Mohammed Rafie. Excerpt: Ronald Wilson Reagan (; February 6, 1911 - June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981-1989), the 33rd Governor of California (1967-1975) and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor. Reagan was born in Tampico in Whiteside County, Illinois, reared in Dixon in Lee County, Illinois, and educated at Eureka College in Eureka, Illinois, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and sociology. Upon his graduation, Reagan first moved to Iowa to work as a radio broadcaster and then in 1937 to Los Angeles, California. He began a career as an actor, first in films and later television, appearing in over 50 movie productions and earning enough success to become a famous, publicly recognized figure. Some of his most notable roles are in Knute Rockne, All American, Kings Row, and Bedtime for Bonzo. Reagan served as president of the Screen Actors Guild, and later spokesman for General Electric; his start in politics occurred during his work for GE. Originally a member of the Democratic Party, he began to support Republican Party candidates in the early 1950s and eventually switched to the Republican Party in 1962. After delivering a rousing speech in support of Barry Goldwater's presidential candidacy in 1964,...