Rebels with a cause
the failure of the left in Iran
by Maziar Behrooz
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"Why were left-wing politics so ineffective in Iran while socialism and communism were making great strides in the rest of the world? Why did the Left not capitalize on Iran's brief fling with anti-Western politics in the early 1950s before the Shah was restored to his throne? Above all, why was the Left so crushingly defeated after the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran? Based on primary and secondary Persian-language sources never before published in English, this book reveals new details and provides fresh insights into an enduring puzzle of modern Iranian political history, concluding that the Left's demise came from a combination of Iran's geopolitical setting, where both the Soviets and the West saw advantage in the stability of Iran during the Cold War, and the Iranian Left's over-enthusiastic devotion to a barren Stalinism."--Publisher's summary.
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History, Politics and government, Ḥizb-i Tūdah-ʼi Īrān, Communism, Right and left (Political science), Islamic studiesPlaces
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Shūrishiyān-i ārmānkhvāh: nākāmī-i chap dar Īrān
2001, Intishārāt-i Quqnūs
in Persian
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Shūrishiyān-i ārmānkhvāh: nākāmī-i chap dar Īrān
2001, Intishārāt-i Quqnūs
in Persian
- Chāp-i 1
9643112632 9789643112639
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Shūrishiyān-i ārmānkhvāh: nākāmī-i chap dar Īrān
2001, Intishārāt-i Quqnūs
in Persian
- Chāp-i 1
9643112632 9789643112639
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Shūrishiyān-i ārmānkhvāh: nākāmī-i chap dar Īrān
2001, Intishārāt-i Quqnūs
in Persian
- Chāp-i 1
9643112632 9789643112639
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Rebels with a cause: the failure of the left in Iran
1999, I.B. Tauris, I. B. Tauris
in English
1860643817 9781860643811
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-231) and index.
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