Reformers and Revolutionaries in Modern Iran New Perspectives on the Iranian Left

1. The Iranian Left: overviews and balance sheets
2. The Iranian Left in international perspective
3. From social democracy to social democracy: the twentieth-century odyssey of the Iranian Left
4. The Iranian Left: historical dimensions
5. Armenian social democrats, the Democrat Party of Iran, and Iran-i naw: a secret camaraderie
6. The First Congress of Peoples of the East and the Iranian Soviet Republic of Gilan, 1920 21
7. Iran's forgotten revolutionary: Abulqasim Lahuti and the Tabriz insurrection of 1922
8. Incommodious hosts, invidious guests: the life and times of Iranian revolutionaries in the Soviet Union, 1921 39
9. The strange politics of Khalil Maleki
10. The Iranian revolution and the legacy of the guerrilla movement
11. The Iranian Left and the Islamic Republic: contemporary critiques
12. Troubled relationships: women, nationalism and the Left movement in Iran
13. The working class and the Islamic state in Iran

Even though the left has never held power in Iran, its impact on the political, intellectual and cultural development of modern Iran has been profound. This book's authors undertake a fundamental re-examination and re-appraisal of the phenomenon of leftist activism in Iran, interpreted in the broadest sense, throughout the period of its existence up to and including the present.