Ali Rahnema

Call to Arms: Iran's Marxist Revolutionaries (eBook, ePUB)

Formation and Evolution of the Fada'is, 1964-1976

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

On 8 February 1971, Marxist revolutionaries attacked the gendarmerie outpost at the village of Siyahkal in Iran's Gilan province. Barely two months later, the Iranian People's Fada'i Guerrillas officially announced their existence and began a long, drawn-out urban guerrilla war against the Shah's regime. In Call to Arms, Ali Rahnema provides a comprehensive history of the Fada'is, beginning by asking why so many of Iran's best and brightest chose revolutionary Marxism in the face of absolutist rule. He traces how radicalised university students from different ideological backgrounds morphed into the Marxist Fada'is in 1971, and sheds light on their theory, practice and evolution. While the Fada'is failed to directly bring about the fall of the Shah, Rahnema shows they had a lasting impact on society and they ultimately saw their objective achieved.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 608
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786079862
• Artikelnr.: 59819152

Autorenporträt

Ali Rahnema is Professor of Economics at the American University of Paris. He is the author of An Islamic Utopian: A Political Biography of Ali Shari'ati, Behind the 1953 Coup in Iran. Most recently, Oneworld has published Call to Arms: Iran's Marxist Revolutionaries and The Rise of Modern Despotism in Iran: The Shah, the Opposition, and the US, 19531968.