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Reformers and Revolutionaries in Modern Iran »

Authors: Stephanie Cronin
ISBN-13: 9780415573443, ISBN-10: 0415573440
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: November 2009
Edition: (Non-applicable)

The contributors of this book undertake a fundamental reexamination and reappraisal of the phenomenon of leftist activism in Iran.

	List of illustrations
	Notes on contributors
	Acknowledgements
	Note on transliteration
	Introduction	1
Pt. I	The Iranian Left : overviews and balance sheets	17
1	The Iranian Left in international perspective	19
2	From social democracy to social democracy : the twentieth-century odyssey of the Iranian Left	37
Pt. II	The Iranian Left : historical dimensions	65
3	Armenian social democrats, the Democrat Party of Iran, and Iran-i naw : a secret camaraderie	67
4	The First Congress of Peoples of the East and the Iranian Soviet Republic of Gilan, 1920-21	85
5	Iran's forgotten revolutionary : Abulqasim Lahuti and the Tabriz insurrection of 1922	118
6	Incommodious hosts, invidious guests : the life and times of Iranian revolutionaries in the Soviet Union, 1921-39	147
7	The strange politics of Khalil Maleki	165
8	The Iranian revolution and the legacy of the guerrilla movement	189
Pt. III	The Iranian Left and the Islamic Republic : contemporary critiques	207
9	Troubled relationships : women, nationalism and the Left movement in Iran	209
10	The tragedy of the Iranian Left	229
11	The Left and the struggle for democracy in Iran	250
12	The Islamic Left : from radicalism to liberalism	268
13	The working class and the Islamic state in Iran	280
	Index	302