Defeat and revival - the great defeat of the Left (1953-70); offensive and stalemate (1971-9) - violence and suppression; revolution - the dance of death (1979-83); why the failure?.
Maziar Behrooz is Assistant Professor of History at San Francisco State University.
"Behrooz argues that Marxism in Iran was defeated not through
ideological crisis engulfing international communism but because of
its inability to understand and cope with the internal dynamics of
the 1979 revolution. An objective, comprehensive, and balanced
presentation..." --Choice "Relying on an array of Persian and
English sources, his valuable book documents the revival of the
left in the wake of the coup against Muhammad Mussadiq in 1953, the
anti-shah movement, and the early years of the Islamic revolution."
--Middle East Quarterly
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