Reformers and revolutionaries in modern Iran : new perspectives on the Iranian left / / edited by Stephanie Cronin

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910821073703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : RoutledgeCurzon, 2004
• ISBN: 1-134-32889-3; 1-280-07959-2; 0-203-39238-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (329 p.)
• Collana: RoutledgeCurzon/BIPS Persian studies series
• Altri autori (Persone): CroninStephanie
• Disciplina: 320.53/0955
• Soggetti: Revolutionaries - Iran; Social reformers - Iran; Right and left (Political science); Islam and politics - Iran; Iran Politics and government 20th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Reformers and Revolutionaries in Modern Iran; Copyright Page; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Note on transliteration; Introduction; Part I The Iranian Left: overviews and balance sheets; 1 The Iranian Left in international perspective; 2 From social democracy to social democracy: the twentieth-century odyssey of the Iranian Left; Part II The Iranian Left: historical dimensions; 3 Armenian social democrats, the Democrat Party of Iran, and Iran-i naw: a secret camaraderie; 4 The First Congress of Peoples of the East and the Iranian Soviet Republic of Gilan, 1920-215 Iran's forgotten revolutionary: Abulqasim Lahuti and the Tabriz insurrection of 1922; 6 Incommodious hosts, invidious guests: the life and times of Iranian revolutionaries in the Soviet Union, 1921-39; 7 The strange politics of Khalil Maleki; 8 The Iranian revolution and the legacy of the guerrilla movement; 9 Troubled relationships: women, nationalism and the Left movement in Iran; 10 The tragedy of the Iranian Left; Part III The Iranian Left and the Islamic Republic: contemporary critiques; 11 The Left and the struggle for democracy in Iran12 The Islamic Left: from radicalism to liberalism; 13 The working class and the Islamic state in Iran; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.