Dear Michael P: Good evening. Firstly many sincere thanks for these references. Very useful indeed, and I will get through them. You say " As for contemporary M-L's in Iran, my gut tells me, they are few and far between.” I would say that your gut seems very reliable.
I had assumed that " Reading Lolita in Tehran ” was some sort of New Age Fest book. But perhaps I should give it a whirl. Thank you especially for the links to the article by Neda Semnani no. 29 October 2015; the I.A. version of E.Arbrahamian’s book; and the Amol uprising via the Woodsmoke Blog. If Paul Saba is watching this space, he may have some other relevant references; but i will check with him anyway, and if so I will add onto your list Michael P. So on adding to your list: I had decided to start from the earlier period and work to the more recent times. Although it is a more laborious and slower method - I previously have found that to be a way of generally helping me to understand better. May not work for all, but I need to soak into it. So I started with the precursors to the Tudeh - the pondering and vacillating social-democratic to communist party. I also have been trying to get at the land reforms (so-called) preceding, and then under the Shah Reza P. In the same sharing spirit as you - I share my lot with you and whoever else wants. I have the pdfs of the articles , (i.e. I do not have the pdfs of the books) should anyone want them. Including you of course Michael. Please contact me off-line and I will with pleasure send along. Some of them - as usual - are somewhat academic and dry. The books are better, and in especial Zabih, Sepehr (see below) are very good over-views of a long history. I have not tried to track the books via the IA; or other Lib sources that you know better than I Michael. Articles Cosroe Chaqueri (1984) Sultanzade: the forgotten revolutionary theoretician of Iran: a biographical sketch, Iranian Studies, 17:2-3, 215-235, DOI: 10.1080/00210868408701629 Cosroe Chaqueri (1988) Iradj Eskandary and the Tudeh party of Iran , Central Asian Survey, 7:4, 101-133, DOI: 10.1080/02634938808400649 Iurii Aleksandrovich Demin; The Reds in Iran:The Communist Party of Iran, the Comintern, and the Bolsheviks in 1922 to the early 1930s; IranianStudies(2025), 1–18 doi:10.1017/irn.2025.10120 George Lenczowski; The Communist Movement in Iran; Middle East Journal, Jan., 1947, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Jan., 1947), pp. 29-45 Farhad Kazemi and Ervand Abrahamian; The Non-revolutionary Peasantry of Modern Iran; Iranian Studies, 1978, Vol. 11, No. 1/4, State and Society in Iran (1978), pp. 259-304 Kevan Harris & Zep Kalb; "Pen to the tiller: Land reform and social mobility across the 1979 Iranian revolution”; J Agrar Change. 2019;19:465–486. Ali M. Ansari (2001) The Myth of the White Revolution: Mohammad Reza Shah, 'Modernization' and the Consolidation of Power, Middle Eastern Studies, 37:3, 1-24, DOI: 10.1080/714004408 Siavush Randjbar-Daemi (2020) The Tudeh Party of Iran and the peasant question, 1941–53, Middle Eastern Studies, 56:6, 969-987, DOI: 10.1080/00263206.2020.1781627 Books: Zabih, Sepehr. "The Left in contemporary Iran : ideology, organisation and the Soviet connection”; Routledge London; 2011 This goes just beyond the Mullah take-over. Bashiriyeh, Hossein. The State and Revolution in Iran, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011. I have already referenced this one: Kayhan Valadbaygi; “Capitalism in contemporary Iran”; Manchester UK 2026; Be Well, H -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#40913): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/40913 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/118098006/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
