The Soviet Union And Revolutionary Iran Rle Iran D

Author : Aryeh Yodfat
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136833700

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The Soviet Union and Revolutionary Iran (RLE Iran D) by Aryeh Yodfat Pdf

Relations between the USSR and Iran during the period from the overthrow of the Shah and the establishment of the Islamic Republic up to early 1983 are reviewed in this book. It begins with a brief survey of Russian-Persian relations in earlier years, with a focus on the developments that served as a background to the current events. It examines Soviet attitudes and reactions to Iran’s foreign and internal policy and highlights the way in which the Soviets often raise events of which they do not approve in order to draw Iran closer to them. In particular, the book discusses the Soviet response to the Iran-Iraq war and the position of the Tudeh Party and the other leftists within Iran. Iran’s policy towards the USSR is treated at length and it is shown that it is suspicious of a tacit USA-USSR agreement over the fate of Iran. Khomeini’s attempts to isolate Iran from both East and West are also reviewed. This book was one of the first to discuss this crucial dimension in Middle East politics and it makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the forces driving the Iranian Revolution.

Author : Sepehr Zabir
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136812637

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The Left in Contemporary Iran (RLE Iran D) by Sepehr Zabir Pdf

This book examines the structure and ideology of all the main leftist groups in Iran. It considers their role in the Revolution, and analyses their relations with Khomeini and his colleagues. It also explains why the majority of the leftist organisations had defected from the Islamic regime by the summer of 1981. A second important theme of the book is the way in which the Soviet Union responded to the treatment of the Left by the Islamic government. Based on extensive analysis of original source material in Farsi and other languages and numerous interviews with leftist leaders and participants, the book provides a detailed portrait of the Left in contemporary Iran.

Author : Anoush Ehteshami
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136834400

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Iran and the International Community (RLE Iran D) by Anoush Ehteshami Pdf

In this book experts examine the main features of Iran’s foreign policy from 1980 – 1990, assessing relations with the UN, the superpowers, Europe, the GCC and Iraq. Although the Islamic revolution made Iran a significant force in the international arena, it is argued that the ending of the Cold War and the rise of Iraq as the dominant power in the Gulf are now creating a very different set of foreign policy challenges and options.

Author : Aryeh Yodfat
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136833779

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The Soviet Union and the Arabian Peninsula (RLE Iran D) by Aryeh Yodfat Pdf

In the first years of the Soviet regime there was little, if any, Soviet interest in Arabia and the Persian Gulf. Over the last fifty years relations between Russia and this part of the world have become more complex; this book traces their intricate history in a full analysis of Soviet policy towards the Arabian Peninsula. It opens with a review of events from the beginning of the Soviet regime until 1975. The author goes on to consider the period between 1975 and 1978, concentrating especially on Soviet relations with Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and South Yemen. The impact of the rise of the Ayatollah Khomeini’s Islamic Republic in 1979 is examined in detail, with the emphasis on the situation in Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and both North and South Yemen. Finally the author examines the effect on Soviet policy of the Iran-Iraq war and the subsequent insecurity in the Gulf region. This study is based on mainly primary sources of Soviet, Arab, Iranian and Western origins.

Author : Aryeh Y. Yodfat
Publisher : London : Croom Helm ; New York : St. Martin's Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Arabia - Foreign relations - Soviet Union
ISBN : 0709929056

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The Soviet Union and Revolutionary Iran by Aryeh Y. Yodfat Pdf

Author : Sepehr Zabir
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136833007

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Iran Since the Revolution (RLE Iran D) by Sepehr Zabir Pdf

Since the turn of the century Iran has experienced three major political upheavals in the struggle to democratize her political systems. The last revolution inaugurated an era of unprecedented turmoil and instead of fulfilling its democratic aim, paved the way for an even more despotic theocracy. To put the revolution in a proper perspective, some attempt is made to explain the reasons for Khomeini’s success in acquiring first, the symbolic leadership of the anti-Shah revolution, and then, the monopolistic control of power in Iran. How and why the other claimants to power were shunted aside and later brutally repressed is a further theme for discussion. The domestic and external ramifications of the revolution are examined in detail; in particular the rise of the anti-American feeling which culminated in the hostage crisis. In conclusion, an analysis is offered of the instrumentalities of power available to the Islamic Republic, and several scenarios are explored in which Iran’s competing forces may converge to determine whether this third revolution will finally succeed in subordinating political authority to popular democratic consent.

Author : Hossein Bashiriyeh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136820892

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The State and Revolution in Iran (RLE Iran D) by Hossein Bashiriyeh Pdf

This book analyses the distant and proximate causes of the 1978 revolution in Iran as well as the dynamics of power which it set in motion. The volume explains the complex and far-reaching processes which produced the revolution, beginning in the late nineteenth century. In explaining the more proximate causes of the revolution, the book analyses the nature of the old regime and its internal contradictions; the emergence of some fundamental conflicts of interest between the state and the upper class; the economic crisis of 1975-8 which made possible a revolutionary mass immobilisation; and the emergence of a new religious interpretation of political authority and the unusual spread of the ideology of political Islam among a segment of the modern intelligentsia. The volume relates the diverse aspects of class, ideology and economic structure in order to provide an understanding of the political processes.

Author : Nikki R. Keddie,Eric James Hooglund
Publisher : Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Iran
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081713096

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The Iranian Revolution & the Islamic Republic by Nikki R. Keddie,Eric James Hooglund Pdf

Author : Sepehr Zabir
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0203829069

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The Iranian Military in Revolution and War (RLE Iran D) by Sepehr Zabir Pdf

This book is a fascinating critical examination of the characteristics and development of the armed forces in Iran, their role under the Shah and their re-creation in the war against Iraq as the fighting forces of Islam. The author examines the contradictory accounts, including the ShahOCOs own Answer to History, as well as newly available accounts by highly placed ex-officials, and interviews with exiled army officers.a The book concludes with an analysis of the potential role of the armed forces in a succession crisis. a"

Author : Ghoncheh Tazmini
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857730701

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Revolution and Reform in Russia and Iran by Ghoncheh Tazmini Pdf

The Russian Revolutions of 1917 and the Iranian Revolution of 1979 are two examples of dramatic, sudden and extraordinary political upheaval that significantly altered the nature of the state and society in the modern age. Here, Ghoncheh Tazmini provides an unprecedented comparative study of these two major revolutions of the twentieth century, which although removed from each other both spatially and temporally, have striking similarities. Examining the roots, events and impact of these two defining upheavals, Tazmini analyses how they resemble each other, stressing the continuity of the dilemma of modernisation for the Romanov, Pahlavi, Communist and Islamist rulers alike. This book is a significant contribution to both historical and contemporary debates concerning Russian and Iranian politics, and to the discourse on the origins and consequences of modernisation and revolution themselves.

Author : Parviz Daneshvar
Publisher : Springer
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349140626

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Revolution in Iran by Parviz Daneshvar Pdf

Revolutions are watershed events that attempt to transform the existing political order and replace it with a new but better one. Yet the hallmark of most revolutions has been violence, war and dictatorship. The Iranian Revolution of 1979 has been no exception. This book offers a critical analysis of the Iranian Revolution. It focuses on the upheavals that led to the fall of the Shah. It provides the reader with an appreciation for the interplay of forces in the making of the 1979 revolution and the emergence of the Islamic regime.

Author : Stephanie Cronin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415624336

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Iranian-Russian Encounters by Stephanie Cronin Pdf

This collection will explore the myriad encounters which have taken place between Iranians and Russian in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It will include some discussion of diplomacy and foreign policy but a central objective of the collection will be to widen the scholarly perspective to incorporate an understanding of other types of encounter, whether political, economic, social, cultural, or intellectual, and both friendly and hostile, especially as these developed beyond the official and elite levels. In particular it will attempt to understand the complexities of the impact on Iran of the Russian presence on its northern borders: the very expansion of Tsarist empire during the nineteenth century threatening Iran's independence yet bringing ideas of social-democracy to its doorstep, the Soviet Union in the twentieth century similarly contradictory in its effect, sustaining radical Iranian politics while advancing its own strategic interests.

Author : Various
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 3476 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136812859

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Routledge Library Editions: Iran Mini-Set D: Politics & Sociology 13 vol set by Various Pdf

Mini-set D:Politics and Sociology re-issues 13 volumes originally published between 1977 and 1991. It discusses the revolution in Iran and what that has meant for the wider region of the Persian Gulf in terms of stability and relations with other countries, as well as issues of poverty in Iran and the position of minorities. For institutional purchases for e-book sets please contact [email protected] (customers in the UK, Europe and Rest of World)

Author : Charles Kupchan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415610544

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The Persian Gulf and the West by Charles Kupchan Pdf

This volume provides a broadly comparative and historical re-examination of the fundamental strategic dilemmas that confront the Western world in the Persian Gulf region. This systematic study of how the West has defined and dealt with its security interests in this region reveals three central strategic dilemmas: strategy versus capability, globalism versus regionalism, and unilateralism versus collectivism. The first part of the book focuses on US policy with particular emphasis on the Iranian Revolution and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The author explains why there has been a persistent gap between American perceptions of the Middle East and the political and strategic realities of the region. The second part of the book examines the frustrated efforts of NATO members to form a cooperative response to their collective interests in the region.

Author : Hossein Amirsadeghi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136834547

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The Security of the Persian Gulf (RLE Iran D) by Hossein Amirsadeghi Pdf

The Persian Gulf, important because of its vast energy resources, emerged into the limelight of geopolitics at the time of the British Labour government’s policy of withdrawal from East of Suez in 1968. Before 1968 it had been recognised that the Gulf lay in the legitimate sphere of influence of Britain, while the United States exerted its influence in the two pivotal littoral states of Iran and Saudi Arabia. The Soviets had been gaining influence in Iraq ever since the overthrow of the monarchy in 1958 and the Chinese were also fishing for influence by their support of the Popular Front for the Liberation of the Arabian Gulf. This book examines the political axes of the various super-powers with Iran and the Persian Gulf and discusses the implications of these problems for the issue of security in the region.