The State and Revolution in Iran (RLE Iran D) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The State and Revolution in Iran (RLE Iran D) write by Hossein Bashiriyeh. This book was released on 2012-04-27. The State and Revolution in Iran (RLE Iran D) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book analyses the distant and proximate causes of the 1978 revolution in Iran as well as the dynamics of power which it set in motion. The volume explains the complex and far-reaching processes which produced the revolution, beginning in the late nineteenth century. In explaining the more proximate causes of the revolution, the book analyses the nature of the old regime and its internal contradictions; the emergence of some fundamental conflicts of interest between the state and the upper class; the economic crisis of 1975-8 which made possible a revolutionary mass immobilisation; and the emergence of a new religious interpretation of political authority and the unusual spread of the ideology of political Islam among a segment of the modern intelligentsia. The volume relates the diverse aspects of class, ideology and economic structure in order to provide an understanding of the political processes.
The State and Revolution in Iran, 1962-1982
The State and Revolution in Iran, 1962-1982 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The State and Revolution in Iran, 1962-1982 write by Hossein Bashiriyeh. This book was released on 1984-01-01. The State and Revolution in Iran, 1962-1982 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The State and Revolution in Iran, 1962-1982
The State and Revolution in Iran, 1962-1982 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The State and Revolution in Iran, 1962-1982 write by Hossein Bashiriyeh. This book was released on 2011. The State and Revolution in Iran, 1962-1982 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran
The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran write by Charles Kurzman. This book was released on 2005-09-06. The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The 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.
Social Origins of the Iranian Revolution
Social Origins of the Iranian Revolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Social Origins of the Iranian Revolution write by Misagh Parsa. This book was released on 1989. Social Origins of the Iranian Revolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Misagh Parsa develops a structural theory of the causes and outcomes of revolution, applying the theory in particular to Iran. He focuses on the ends and means of various groups of Iranians before, during, and after the revolution. For Parsa, revolution is not a direct result of ideologies, which may be less important than structural factors such as the nature of the state and the economy, as well as each group's interests, capacity for mobilization, autonomy, and solidarity structures. Existing theories of revolution explain earlier revolutions better than the Iranian revolution. In Iran most of the protest was in urban areas, the peasants never played a major role, and power was transferred to the clergy, not to an intelligentsia. In the 1970s, oil revenues increased, the economy developed rapidly but unevenly, and the state's expanded intervention undermined market forces and politicized capital accumulation. Systematic repression of workers, aid to the upper class, and attacks on secular and religious opposition showed that the state was serving the interests of particular groups. When the state tried to check high inflation by imposing price controls on bazaaris (merchants, shopkeepers, artisans), their protests forced the state to introduce reforms, providing an opportunity for industrial workers, white-collar workers, intellectuals, and the clergy to mobilize against the state. Thus, structural features rendered the state vulnerable to challenge and attack. Parsa's thorough explanation of the collective actions of each major group in Iran in the three decades prior to the revolution shows how a coalition of classes and groups, using mosques as safe gathering places and led by a segment of the clergy, brought down the monarch of 1979. In the years since the revolution, the conflicts that existed before the revolution seem to be reemerging, in slightly altered form. The clergy now has control, and the state has become centrally and powerfully involved in the economy of the country.
