ABSTRACT
Even though the left has never held power in Iran, its impact on the political, intellectual and cultural development of modern Iran has been profound. This book's authors undertake a fundamental re-examination and re-appraisal of the phenomenon of leftist activism in Iran, interpreted in the broadest sense, throughout the period of its existence up to and including the present.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|48 pages
The Iranian Left
chapter 2|28 pages
From Social Democracy to Social Democracy
The twentieth-century odysseyof the Iranian Left
part II|141 pages
The Iranian Left
chapter 3|18 pages
Armenian Social Democrats, the Democrat Party of Iran, and Iran-I Naw
A secret camaraderie
1
chapter 5|29 pages
Iran's Forgotten Revolutionary
Abulqasim Lahuti and the Tabriz insurrectionof 1922
chapter 6|18 pages
Incommodious Hosts, Invidious Guests
The life and times of Iranian revolutionaries inthe Soviet Union, 1921–39
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part III|95 pages
The Iranian Left and the Islamic Republic
chapter 13|22 pages
The Working Class and the Islamic State in Iran*
Haideh Moghissi and Saeed Rahnema
