num_pages: 352
description: This book reconstructs and analyzes the history of left-wing politics in Iran and its Russo-Caucasian origins during the Persian Constitutional Revolution. It is also a history of the formative years of the socialist movement in Iran between the first Russian revolution of 1905, when Iran first felt the organizational influence of Russian Marxism, and the suppression of the Iranian Constitutional regime by Tsarist bayonets in the shadow of British support in 1911.The first study to unravel and reconstruct the decisive role of social democracy in Iran's most important transformation in modern times, this book recovers a vital part of Iran's modern history. Based on research in Iranian, Azeri, Armenian, Georgian, Russian, British, German, French, and American sources, it explains the deep roots and consequences of Iran's Constitutional Revolution and its international character.
language: English
title: Origins of Social Democracy in Modern Iran
titlecomplete: Origins of Social Democracy in Modern Iran
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Univ of Washington Pr