Peyman Vahabzadeh is Professor of Sociology at the University of Victoria, where his research focuses on the power of collective action and social movements. He is the author of Violence and Nonviolence and editor of Iran's Struggles for Social Justice, among other works in English and Persian. He lives in Victoria, British Columbia.
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations for Sho`aiyan¿s Major Works
Note on Translation and Transliteration
Introduction: Reactivating Distorted Histories
1 The Making of a Singular Revolutionary
2 Experiences and Experiments in the 1960s
3 Facing the Fadaiyan
4 On Intellectuals
5 Frontal Politics, Frontal Thinking
6 Rebellious Essence, Rebellious Action
Conclusion: The Twenty-First-Century Revolutionary Theory
Appendix: The Question of the People
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