Description: Further DetailsTitle: Social Origins of the Iranian RevolutionCondition: NewFormat: PaperbackISBN-10: 0813514126EAN: 9780813514123ISBN: 9780813514123Publisher: Rutgers University PressRelease Date: 09/01/1989Description: Misagh Parsa develops a structural theory of the causes and outcomes of revolution, applying the theory in particular to Iran. He focuses on the ends and means of various groups of Iranians before, during, and after the revolution. For Parsa, revolution is not a direct result of ideologies, which may be less important than structural factors such as the nature of the state and the economy, as well as each group's interests, capacity for mobilization, autonomy, and solidarity structures. Existing theories of revolution explain earlier revolutions better than the Iranian revolution. In Iran most of the protest was in urban areas, the peasants never played a major role, and power was transferred to the clergy, not to an intelligentsia. In the 1970s, oil revenues increased, the economy developed rapidly but unevenly, and the state's expanded intervention undermined market forces and politicized capital accumulation. Systematic repression of workers, aid to the upper class, and attacks on secular and religious opposition showed that the state was serving the interests of particular groups. When the state tried to check high inflation by imposing price controls on bazaaris (merchants, shopkeepers, artisans), their protests forced the state to introduce reforms, providing an opportunity for industrial workers, white-collar workers, intellectuals, and the clergy to mobilize against the state. Thus, structural features rendered the state vulnerable to challenge and attack. Parsa's thorough explanation of the collective actions of each major group in Iran in the three decades prior to the revolution shows how a coalition of classes and groups, using mosques as safe gathering places and led by a segment of the clergy, brought down the monarch of 1979. In the years since the revolution, the conflicts that existed before the revolution seem to be reemerging, in slightly altered form. The clergy now has control, and the state has become centrally and powerfully involved in the economy of the country.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 25mmItem Weight: 567gAuthor: Misagh ParsaGenre: Society & CultureType: Countries & RegionsTopic: Social SciencesRelease Year: 1989 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Social Origins of the Iranian Revolution
Title: Social Origins of the Iranian Revolution
ISBN-10: 0813514126
EAN: 9780813514123
ISBN: 9780813514123
Release Date: 09/01/1989
Release Year: 1989
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Social Sciences
Number of Pages: 368 Pages
Publication Name: Social Origins of the Iranian Revolution
Language: English
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Subject: Sociology / General, World / Middle Eastern, Middle East / Iran
Item Height: 0.9 in
Publication Year: 1989
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 20 Oz
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science, History
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Misagh Parsa
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
