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The Last Great Revolution

Author : Robin B. Wright
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Last Great Revolution written by Robin B. Wright and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2000 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Last Great Revolution is written with clarity and insight about Iran's tumultuous twenty-year Islamic revolution. Robin Wright speaks authoritatively about the Iranian republic's evolution, from the convulsive, vindictive early years of he revolution to the current uncertainties over experimentation with Islamic democracy. Her book is a valuable contribtion to our understanding of contemporary Iranian society and the possible directions this very important country make take in the future." -- Senator Richard G. Lugar, Foreign Relations Committee Robin Wright, the acclaimed Mideast expert and foreign correspondent, returns to Iran, which she has visited more frequently than has any other American since the fall of the shah, to give us a portrait of the revolution -- a generation after Ayatollah Khomeini returned from exile to end 2,500 years of monarchy. She shows us how the Iranian revolution has taken on even greater importance since Khomeini's death, and how it transformed Iranian society as well as Islam. She describes the revolutions within the revolution that have resulted in a movement as radical in the world of Islam as Luther's Reformation was in the Christian world -- empowering women, modernizing social traditions, creating a fiesty, independent cinema and arts industry and giving birth to a new generation that is redefining Iran's political agenda. Wright makes abundantly clear why she believes the Iranian revolution will stand along with the French and the Russian as one of the three innovative revolutions -- and the last great revolution -- of the Modern Era.

Guardians of the Revolution

Author : Ray Takeyh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199754101
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Guardians of the Revolution written by Ray Takeyh and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-05 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over a quarter century, Iran has been one of America's chief nemeses. Ever since Ayatollah Khomeini overthrew the Shah in 1979, the relationship between the two nations has been antagonistic: revolutionary guards chanting against the Great Satan, Bush fulminating against the Axis of Evil, Iranian support for Hezbollah, and President Ahmadinejad blaming the U.S. for the world's ills. The unending war of words suggests an intractable divide between Iran and the West, one that may very well lead to a shooting war in the near future. But as Ray Takeyh shows in this accessible and authoritative history of Iran's relations with the world since the revolution, behind the famous personalities and extremist slogans is a nation that is far more pragmatic--and complex--than many in the West have been led to believe. Takeyh explodes many of our simplistic myths of Iran as an intransigently Islamist foe of the West. Tracing the course of Iranian policy since the 1979 revolution, Takeyh identifies four distinct periods: the revolutionary era of the 1980s, the tempered gradualism following the death of Khomeini and the end of the Iran-Iraq war in 1989, the "reformist" period from 1997-2005 under President Khatami, and the shift toward confrontation and radicalism since the election of President Ahmadinejad in 2005. Takeyh shows that three powerful forces--Islamism, pragmatism, and great power pretensions--have competed in each of these periods, and that Iran's often paradoxical policies are in reality a series of compromises between the hardliners and the moderates, often with wild oscillations between pragmatism and ideological dogmatism. The U.S.'s task, Takeyh argues, is to find strategies that address Iran's objectionable behavior without demonizing this key player in an increasingly vital and volatile region. With its clear-sighted grasp of both nuance and historical sweep, Guardians of the Revolution will stand as the standard work on this controversial--and central--actor in world politics for years to come.

Mao's Last Revolution

Author : Roderick MACFARQUHAR
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674040414
Total Pages : 742 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Mao's Last Revolution written by Roderick MACFARQUHAR and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains why Mao launched the Cultural Revolution, and shows his Machiavellian role in masterminding it. This book documents the Hobbesian state that ensued. Power struggles raged among Lin Biao, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, and Jiang Qing - Mao's wife and leader of the Gang of Four - while Mao often played one against the other.

The Last Shah

Author : Ray Takeyh
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030021779X
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Last Shah written by Ray Takeyh and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The surprising story of Iran's transformation from America's ally in the Middle East into one of its staunchest adversaries "An original interpretation that puts Iranian actors where they belong: at center stage."--Michael Doran, Wall Street Journal "For the clearest view of Iran for the last 100 years, this book is it."--Marvin Zonis, author of Majestic Failure: The Fall of the Shah Offering a new view of one of America's most important, infamously strained, and widely misunderstood relationships of the postwar era, this book tells the history of America and Iran from the time the last shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, was placed on the throne in 1941 to the 1979 revolution that brought the present Islamist government to power. This revolution was not, as many believe, the popular overthrow of a powerful and ruthless puppet of the United States; rather, it followed decades of corrosion of Iran's political establishment by an autocratic ruler who demanded fealty but lacked the personal strength to make hard decisions and, ultimately, lost the support of every sector of Iranian society. Esteemed Middle East scholar Ray Takeyh provides new interpretations of many key events--including the 1953 coup against Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadeq and the rise of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini--significantly revising our understanding of America and Iran's complex and difficult history.

The American Revolution

Author : Yvonne McGee De Brazil
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book The American Revolution written by Yvonne McGee De Brazil and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dreams and Shadows

Author : Robin B. Wright
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9781594201110
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Dreams and Shadows written by Robin B. Wright and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magnificent reckoning with the extraordinary changes engulfing the Middle East, by one of our greatest reporters on the region. Robin Wright first landed in the Middle East on October 6, 1973, the day the fourth Middle East war erupted. She has covered every country and most major crises in the region since then, through to the rise of al Qaeda and the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Dreams and Shadowsis an extraordinary tour de horizon of the new Middle East, with on-the-ground reportage of the ideas and movements driving change across the region-and the obstacles they confront. Through the powerful storytelling for which the author is famous, Dreams and Shadows ties together the players and events in Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Morocco, Turkey, the Gulf states, and the Palestinian territories into a coherent vision of what lies ahead.

The Eternal Revolution

Author : Hamad Albloshi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857729500
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book The Eternal Revolution written by Hamad Albloshi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-27 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than three decades have passed since the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1979. In that time, theories of modern revolution would suggest a retreat from ideological goals, heralding a phase of institutional development. However, Hamad Albloshi argues that Iran is unique: the current rhetoric of conservative Iranian leaders implies the regime has not left its revolutionary stage. Through an examination of the hardline conservative ideology in Iran-personified by the former president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad-this book explores how the usual development seen in revolutions from radical discourse to pragmatic rhetoric has not been the case in Iran. Albloshi explores the evolution of the hardline conservatives and their main ideas about the nature of the Iranian regime, their position toward other groups within the system, and their approach to the international community. By doing so, he sheds new light on the group's position in the country and the ideological roots of major shifts that occurred in Iran's internal and external policies in the period between 2005 and 2013.

The Great Revolution

Author : M. Ahern
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3382501007
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (825 download)

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Download or read book The Great Revolution written by M. Ahern and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

A Concise History of Revolution

Author : Mehran Kamrava
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108485952
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book A Concise History of Revolution written by Mehran Kamrava and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-26 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From rebellion to revolution -- Social movements and revolution -- Revolutionary states -- Revolutionary polities.

The Chautauquan

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Chautauquan written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

"England's Downfall", Or, The Last Great Revolution. [A Novel of the Future]

Author : An Ex-revolutionist
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book "England's Downfall", Or, The Last Great Revolution. [A Novel of the Future] written by An Ex-revolutionist and published by . This book was released on 1893* with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Warner Library: The world's best literature

Author : Charles Dudley Warner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 794 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The Warner Library: The world's best literature written by Charles Dudley Warner and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Revolution and its Discontents

Author : Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108426344
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Revolution and its Discontents written by Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a focus on the political elite, Sadeghi-Boroujerdi analysis the intellectual and political trajectory of post-revolutionary Iranian reformism.

Revolutions Of The Late Twentieth Century

Author : Jack Goldstone
Publisher : Westview Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Revolutions Of The Late Twentieth Century written by Jack Goldstone and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1991-11-06 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Departing from the “Great Revolutions” tradition, Jack A. Goldstone, Ted Robert Gurr, and Farrokh Moshiri have drawn together a variety of area experts to examine contemporary revolutionary crises in light of recent social and political developments. The result is a wide-ranging compendium of cases placed in current theoretical perspective.The book opens with a survey of theories of revolutionary conflict, ranging from Marx and Engels to Skocpol and Tilly. Next, Goldstone lays out an analytical framework for understanding contemporary revolutions that traces a sequence from processes of state breakdown and the ensuing struggle for power to the process of state reconstruction. The framework is then used to examine ten very different revolutionary crises—in Vietnam, Nicaragua, Iran, Poland, Afghanistan, the Philippines, Cambodia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, and the Palestinian uprising in the West Bank and Gaza. Factors implicit in state breakdown and reconstruction such as political and fiscal crisis, elite divisions, and mass mobilization are highlighted in the analyses of the individual crises.The concluding chapter, coauthored by Gurr and Goldstone, compares the origins, dynamics, and outcomes of the revolutions in the case studies and applies the findings to ongoing and prospective cases. Taken together, the contributors' and editors' work shows that the end of the cold war does not signal the end of revolution and that with proper attention to certain conditions and factors, revolutionary “surprises''—such as those in Eastern Europe—need not catch us off guard in the years ahead.THIS PARAGRAPH FOR TEXT PROMOTION ONLYAppropriate for upper division courses in revolutions and social movements, Revolutions of the Late Twentieth Century is fully documented, illustrated with maps, figures, and comparative tables, and bolstered by chronologies to accompany each country-specific chapter.

The Archaeological Journal

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Archaeological Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Warner Library

Author : Charles Dudley Warner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Warner Library written by Charles Dudley Warner and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Last Revolution

Author : Patrick Dillon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Last Revolution written by Patrick Dillon and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last successful invasion of England; mobs burning Catholic chapels; one king, James, driven from his palace by night while another, William, rode in at the head of a foreign army; the events of winter 1688 were among the most dramatic in our history. The settlement which followed would place England decisively on the path to freedom, toleration, parliamentary democracy Ưand empire. Few moments have done so much to shape this country as the Glorious Revolution. But 1688 would change England in other ways as well. This was the time of Isaac Newton's scientific breakthroughs and John Locke's philosophy. The 1690s would see free market ideas emerge, the first stockmarket boom and bust, the end of press censorship and the arrival of religious toleration. Newspapers were opening. London was becoming a mecca for leisure and conspicuous consumption. In decisive ways, the modern world was formed in these turbulent years. Weaving political drama in with the lives of scientists and revolutionaries, stockjobbers and refugees, The Last Revolution paints a vivid canvas of England's last great political struggle, a struggle which often, at the time, seemed far from glorious. Here are the political exiles who plotted against James II, and the financiers who established the City; here are philosophers and gamblers, actors and entrepreneurs and Ưnot least, Ư traditionalists defending cherished values against The Moderns. Closely researched, teeming with dramatic incident and vivid character, The Last Revolution brings to life the revolutionary world of the late seventeenth century. It offers timely reminders about religious toleration and the political freedoms on which we depend, and, finally, provides a brilliant insight into the emergence of the dynamic, constantly changing world we inhabit today. -- Book jacket.