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Social Origins of the Iranian Revolution

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Social Origins of the Iranian Revolution - Parsa, Misagh
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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 ...

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Social Origins of the Iranian Revolution 1989, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ

ISBN-13: 9780813514123

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