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" Call to arms : "
Ali Rahnema.
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BL
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1049013
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bc405
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English
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| Main Entry
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Rāhnamā, ʿAlī
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Call to arms : : Iran's Marxist revolutionaries : formation and evolution of the Fada'is, 1964-1976 /\ Ali Rahnema.
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London :: Oneworld Academic,, 2021.
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Radical histories of the Middle East
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1 volume ;; 24 cm.
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| ISBN
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9781786079855
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: 1786079852
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9781786079862 (ePub ebook)
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| Contents
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Introduction -- Violence as a political option? -- Has Zia-Zarifi's account of why armed struggle -- Amir-Parviz Pouyan's account of why armed struggle -- Mas'oud Ahmadzadeh's accounts of why armed struggle -- Rijan Janzani's accounts of why armed struggle -- The Tudeh Party's awkward tango with armed struggle -- Monarchists, maoists, and the Tudeh Party in unison: armed struggle is counter-revolutionary adventurism -- Armed struggle and Marxist canonists -- Armed struggle and Marxist revolutionaries -- Formative years of the Jazan Group -- Jazani Group compromised -- The new Hasanpour, Ashrae, and Safa'i-Farahani Group: preparations and operations -- The Pouyan, Ahmadzadehm and Meftahi Group -- Armed struggle in Iran: rural or urban -- Merger discussions for "Iran's Revolutionary Armed Movement" -- The H-A-S Group hounded -- The Siyahkal Operation -- Assessing the Siyahkal strike -- The Hamid Ashraf factor -- Hemming the guerillas or cultivating a guerrilla culture? -- Jazani's questioning of armed struggle -- Softly disarming armed struggle to regain the trust of the masses -- Jazani's ideological offensive in prison -- The Fada'i interface, inside, outside prison -- Fada'i leadership debating correct methods of struggle -- Bird's-eye view of armed struggle (1971-1976) -- Guerillas conducting the regime's requiem -- The regime's requiem: the players abroad -- Prelude to the Shah's free fall.
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On 8 February 1971, Marxist revolutionaries attacked the gendarmerie outpost at the village of Siyahkal in Iran's Gilan Province. Barely two months later, the Iranian People's Fada'i Guerrillas officially announced their existence and began a long, drawn-out urban guerrilla war against the Shah's regime. In Call to Arms, Ali Rahnema provides an exhaustive history of the Fada'is, beginning by asking why so many of Iran's best and brightest chose revolutionary Marxism in the face of authoritarian rule. He traces how radicalised university students from different ideological backgrounds morphed into the Marxist Fada'is in 1971, and sheds light on the ideological theory and practice of the Fada'is, their evolution and internal disputes. While the People's Fada'i Guerrillas failed to directly bring about the fall of the Shah, the political and psychological conditions they created, the ideals and archetypes they established, and the forces they put in motion, namely the student movement both in Iran and overseas, had a lasting impact on society and saw their objective achieved.
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Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas.
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Communism-- Iran.
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HISTORY / Asia / General.
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Communism.
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Politics and government.
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Iran, History, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, 1941-1979.
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Iran, History, Revolution, 1979.
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Iran, Politics and government, 1941-1979.
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Iran.
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955.053
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