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REFORMERS ANDREVOLUTIONARIESIN MODERN IRAN
New perspectives on the Iranian Left
Edited by
Stephanie Cronin
First published 2004
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Reformers and revolutionaries in modern Iran : new perspectives on the
Iranian left / edited by Stephanie Cronin. 1st ed.
p. cm. (RoutledgeCurzon/BIPS Persian studies series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. IranPolitics and government20th century.
2. RevolutionariesIran. 3. Social reformersIran. 4. Right and left
(Political science) 5. Islam and politicsIran. I. Cronin, Stephanie.
II. University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies. III.
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DS316.3.R44 2004
320.53'0955dc22
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ISBN 0415331285 Master e-book ISBN
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CONTENTS
STEPHANIE CRONIN
PART I
The Iranian Left: overviews and balance sheets
PART II
The Iranian Left: historical dimensions
Part III
The Iranian Left and the Islamic Republic: contemporarycritiques
HAIDEH MOGHISSI AND SAEED RAHNEMA |
ILLUSTRATIONS
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CONTRIBUTORS
Ervand Abrahamian was born in Tehran and educated at Oxford and Columbia Universities. He now teaches history at Baruch College in the City University of New York. His publications include Iran Between Two Revolutions (Princeton University Press, 1982); The Iranian Mojahedin (Yale University Press, 1986); Khomeinism (California University Press, 1993); Tortured Confessions: Prisons and Public Recantations in Modern Iran (California University Press, 1999). He is now working on the 1953 coup and a general history of modern Iran.
Janet Afary was educated at Tehran University and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is currently Associate Professor of History and Womens Studies at Purdue University. She is author of The Iranian Constitutional Revolution: Grassroots Democracy, Social Democracy, and the Origins of Feminism (Columbia University Press, 1996), which was also translated and published in Iran (Bisotoun, 2000). She has edited or co-edited three volumes, and published numerous articles in journals such as the International Journal of Middle East Studies , Iranian Studies , New Left Review , Critical Middle Eastern Studies , Iran Nameh , Mehregan , Journal of Womens History , National Womens Studies Association Journal and Radical History Review.
Touraj Atabaki is Professor of Modern History at the University of Amsterdam and Senior Research Fellow at the International Institute of Social History. He is the author of