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Author Hegland, Mary Elaine, author.

Title Days of revolution : political unrest in an Iranian village / Mary Elaine Hegland
Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (xxxv, 316 pages)
Contents Historical Aliabad -- Political repression : the Mosaddeq era -- Economic transformation and political space -- Recruitment to revolution -- The final months -- After the revolution : the local uprising -- Aliabad : thirty-four years later
Summary "Outside of Shiraz in the Fars Province of southwestern Iran lies "Aliabad." Mary Hegland arrived in this then-small agricultural village of several thousand people in the summer of 1978, unaware of the momentous changes that would sweep this town and this country in the months ahead. She became the only American researcher to witness the Islamic Revolution firsthand over her eighteen-month stay. Days of Revolution offers an insider's view of how regular people were drawn into, experienced, and influenced the 1979 Revolution and its aftermath. Returning to Aliabad decades later, Days of Revolution closes with a view of the village and revolution thirty years on. Over the course of several visits between 2003 and 2008, Mary Hegland investigates the lasting effects of the Revolution on the local political factions and in individual lives. As Iran remains front-page news, this intimate look at the country's recent history and its people has never been more timely or critical for understanding the critical interplay of local and global politics in Iran."--Publisher website
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Villages -- Iran -- Case studies
Political culture -- Iran
HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia.
Political culture
Politics and government
Villages
SUBJECT Iran -- History -- Revolution, 1979. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86002666
Iran -- Politics and government -- 1979-1997. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85067913
Iran -- Politics and government -- 1997- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98004950
Subject Iran
Genre/Form Case studies
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2013026629
ISBN 0804788855
9780804788854