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Revolutionary Iran : a history of the Islamic Republic
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Revolutionary Iran : a history of the Islamic Republic / Michael Axworthy.
ISBN
9781846147876 (pbk.)
1846147875 (pbk.)
9781846142918 (hbk)
1846142911 (hbk)
Publication
London : Allen Lane an imprint of Penguin Books, 2013.
Physical Description
xxii, 495 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 22, 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Prologue: "ten days of dawn" (Daheh-ye Fajr)
The background: Ma chegoneh ma shodim? ("How did we become what we are?")
The 1970s and the slide to revolution
Like the person he ought to be: Islamic republic, 1979-80
Jang-e Tahmili: the imposed war, 1980-88
The end of the war, the death of the emam, and reconstruction: Khamenei and Rafsanjani, 1988-97
Bim-e mowj (Fear of the wave): Khatami and reform, 1997-2005
Everything must change, so that everything can stay the same: Ahmadinejad and Khamenei, 2005-12.
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