Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, December 2014, 52 p. This paper is one of a series of Working Papers published by the Cold War International History Project of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. Established in 1991 by a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Cold War International History Project...
Lanham, Boulder, New York, Toronto, Plymouth (UK): University Press of America, 2009. — 235 p. This book is a study of the origins, development, and end of the U.S.-Soviet Cold War rivalry in Iran from 1945 to 1962 and its influence on the political and economic development of the country. It traces the roots of this rivalry to the Anglo-Soviet occupation of Iran in 1941 during...
London, NY: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004. - 329 p. 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...
London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. - 349 p. Against conventional views of the unchallenged hegemony of a modernizing monarchy, this book argues that power was continuously contested in Riza Shah's Iran. Cronin excavates the successive challenges to Riza Shah's regime posed by a range of subaltern social groups and seeks to restore to these groups a sense of their historical agency.
London, New York: Routledge, 2007. - 271 p. This innovative and important book challenges conventional political and scholarly approaches to understanding tribal politics in the Middle East, taking as its historical focus a country and a period where these politics were a site of intense conflict: Iran under Riza Shah. The book places the ‘tribal problem’ at the centre of Riza...
Routledge, 2013. — 352 p. — (Iranian Studies 18) Culture and Cultural Politics Under Reza Shah presents a collection of innovative research on the interaction of culture and politics accompanying the vigorous modernization programme of the first Pahlavi ruler. Examining a broad spectrum of this multifaceted interaction it makes an important contribution to the cultural history...
New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2003. - 282 p. With a thrilling narrative that sheds much light on recent events, this national bestseller brings to life the 1953 CIA coup in Iran that ousted the country’s elected prime minister, ushered in a quarter-century of brutal rule under the Shah, and stimulated the rise of Islamic fundamentalism and anti-Americanism in the Middle...
Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2002. This book is the first comprehensive history of Iran's student movement from its origin to the 1970s. The main narrative draws almost exclusively on primary sources to give a full historical account of the Confederation of Iranian Students/National Union (CISNU), the largest and most influential opposition organization active throughout...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 320 p. Ali Rahnema's newest work is a meticulous historical reconstruction of the events surrounding the Iranian coup d'état in 1953 that led to the overthrow of Mohammed Mosaddeq and his government. Mosaddeq's removal from power has probably attracted more attention than any other event occurring during his tenure because of the role of...
Penguin Books, Oxford University Press, Inc., 1980. — 421 p. A Friendship is Born A Country Is Saved 1945-50 A Revolution Is Overthrown 1951-53 An Alliance Is Made 1954-68 An Imperial Dream 1969-74 Arms and the Shah 1975-76 The Pillar Crumbles 1977-78 Days of Reckoning 1978-79 Charismatic Disorder 1979 Iran’s Second Revolution 1979-80 The Role of the Media … Chronology of...
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