Iranian Student Opposition to the Shah
Author: Afshin Matin-Asgari
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 308
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Author: Afshin Matin-Asgari
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 308
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Manijeh Moradian
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2022-08-29
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 1478023465
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn This Flame Within Manijeh Moradian revises conventional histories of Iranian migration to the United States as a post-1979 phenomenon characterized by the flight of pro-Shah Iranians from the Islamic Republic and recounts the experiences of Iranian foreign students who joined a global movement against US imperialism during the 1960s and 1970s. Drawing on archival evidence and in-depth interviews with members of the Iranian Students Association, Moradian traces what she calls “revolutionary affects”—the embodied force of affect generated by experiences of repression and resistance—from encounters with empire and dictatorship in Iran to joint organizing with other student activists in the United States. Moradian theorizes “affects of solidarity” that facilitated Iranian student participation in a wide range of antiracist and anticolonial movements and analyzes gendered manifestations of revolutionary affects within the emergence of Third World feminism. Arguing for a transnational feminist interpretation of the Iranian Student Association’s legacy, Moradian demonstrates how the recognition of multiple sources of oppression in the West and in Iran can reorient Iranian diasporic politics today.
Author: Gholam Reza Afkhami
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2009-01-12
Total Pages: 739
ISBN-13: 0520942167
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis epic biography, a gripping insider's account, is a long-overdue chronicle of the life and times of Mohammad Reza Shah, who ruled from 1941 to 1979 as the last Iranian monarch. Gholam Reza Afkhami uses his unparalleled access to a large number of individuals—including high-ranking figures in the shah's regime, members of his family, and members of the opposition—to depict the unfolding of the shah's life against the forces and events that shaped the development of modern Iran. The first major biography of the Shah in twenty-five years, this richly detailed account provides a radically new perspective on key events in Iranian history, including the 1979 revolution, U.S.-Iran relations, and Iran's nuclear program. It also sheds new light on what now drives political and cultural currents in a country at the heart of today's most perplexing geopolitical dilemmas.
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Published: 1976
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Afshin Matin-Asgari
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-08-16
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 1108428533
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStudying intellectual trends in Iran in a global historical context, this new intellectual history challenges many dominant paradigms in Iranian historiography and offers a new revisionist interpretation of Iranian modernity.
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Published: 1984
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Charles Kurzman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2005-09-06
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780674039834
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, would remain on the throne for the foreseeable future: This was the firm conclusion of a top-secret CIA analysis issued in October 1978. One hundred days later the shah--despite his massive military, fearsome security police, and superpower support was overthrown by a popular and largely peaceful revolution. But the CIA was not alone in its myopia, as Charles Kurzman reveals in this penetrating work; Iranians themselves, except for a tiny minority, considered a revolution inconceivable until it actually occurred. Revisiting the circumstances surrounding the fall of the shah, Kurzman offers rare insight into the nature and evolution of the Iranian revolution and into the ultimate unpredictability of protest movements in general. As one Iranian recalls, The future was up in the air. Through interviews and eyewitness accounts, declassified security documents and underground pamphlets, Kurzman documents the overwhelming sense of confusion that gripped pre-revolutionary Iran, and that characterizes major protest movements. His book provides a striking picture of the chaotic conditions under which Iranians acted, participating in protest only when they expected others to do so too, the process approaching critical mass in unforeseen and unforeseeable ways. Only when large numbers of Iranians began to think the unthinkable, in the words of the U.S. ambassador, did revolutionary expectations become a self-fulfilling prophecy. A corrective to 20-20 hindsight, this book reveals shortcomings of analyses that make the Iranian revolution or any major protest movement seem inevitable in retrospect.
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Published: 1984
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublications about Iran of an anti-Pahlavi nature, published outside Iran between 1962 and 1979. Approximately 687 documents comprise all of the important primary sources (transactions of congresses, defense pleas, party programs) as well as literature on economics, guerilla movements, human rights, Islamic government and revolution, minorities, political trials, prisons, religion, sociology, and the Tudeh Party.