The Iranian left in international perspective / Fred Halliday -- From social democracy to social democracy : the twentieth-century odyssey of the Iranian left / Afshin Matin-Asgari -- Armenian social democrats, the Democrat Party of Iran, and Iran-i naw : a secret camaraderie / Janet Afary -- The first congress of peoples of the east and the Iranian Soviet Republic of Gilan, 1920-21 / Pezhmann Dailami -- Iran's forgotten revolutionary : Abulqasim Lahuti and the Tabriz insurrection of 1922 / Stephanie Cronin -- Incommodious hosts, invidious guests : the life and times of Iranian revolutionaries in the Soviet Union, 1921-39 / Touraj Atabaki -- The strange politics of Khalil Maleki / Homa Behrooz -- The Iranian revolution and the legacy of the guerrilla movement / Maziar Behrooz -- Troubled relationships : women, nationalism and the left movement in Iran / Haideh Moghissi -- The tragedy of the Iranian left / Ali Mirsepassi -- The left and the struggle for democracy in Iran / Saeed Rahnema -- The Islamic left : from radicalism to liberalism / Ervand Abrahamian -- The working class and the Islamic state in Iran / Haideh Moghissi and Saeed Rahnema
Summary
The contributors of this book undertake a fundamental reexamination and reappraisal of the phenomenon of leftist activism in Iran
