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the failure of the left in Iran

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Rebels with a cause

the failure of the left in Iran

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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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Cover of: Shūrishiyān-i ārmānkhvāh
Shūrishiyān-i ārmānkhvāh: nākāmī-i chap dar Īrān
2001, Intishārāt-i Quqnūs
in Persian - Chāp-i 1
Cover of: Shūrishiyān-i ārmānkhvāh
Shūrishiyān-i ārmānkhvāh: nākāmī-i chap dar Īrān
2001, Intishārāt-i Quqnūs
in Persian - Chāp-i 1
Cover of: Shūrishiyān-i ārmānkhvāh
Shūrishiyān-i ārmānkhvāh: nākāmī-i chap dar Īrān
2001, Intishārāt-i Quqnūs
in Persian - Chāp-i 1
Cover of: Shūrishiyān-i ārmānkhvāh
Shūrishiyān-i ārmānkhvāh: nākāmī-i chap dar Īrān
2001, Intishārāt-i Quqnūs
in Persian - Chāp-i 1
Cover of: Rebels with a cause
Rebels with a cause: the failure of the left in Iran
1999, I.B. Tauris, I. B. Tauris
in English

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-231) and index.

Published in
London, New York
Other Titles
Failure of the left in Iran.

Classifications

Library of Congress
HX385.2.A6 B4417 1994

The Physical Object

Pagination
xv, 239 p., 8 p. of plates :
Number of pages
239

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL17596422M
ISBN 10
1860643817
OCLC/WorldCat
42759211, 1140128030
LibraryThing
2133371
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.5040/9780755612093

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OL12225922W

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