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A Guerrilla Odyssey: Modernization, Secularism, Democracy, and Fadai Period of National Liberation in Iran 1971-1979 by Peyman Vahabzadeh 9780815632436

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Emerging in the early 1970s, the Organization of Iranian People's Fadai Guerrillas (OIPFG) become one of the most important secular leftist political organizations in Iran. Despite their lasting influence and the way in which their efforts helped shape the history of Iran for decades to come, little is known about the group. ""A Guerrilla Odyssey"" presents the first comprehensive examination of the rise and fall of the Fadai urban guerrilla movement in Iran. Drawing on exhaustive analyses of the published and unpublished works of the Fadai Guerrillas, as well as of archival material and interviews with activists, the author demonstrates historically and sociologically the conditions that surrounded the debut and demise of the urban guerrilla warfare that defined Iranian political life in the 1970s Vahabzdeh offers a critique of various aspects of the Fadai's theories of national liberation in an attempt to reconsider the painful relationship among modernization, secularism, and democracy in contemporary Iran. In addition, the author makes a compelling case explaining why older revolutionary social movements of the 1960s and 1970s have transformed into the new democratic social movements that emerged from the 1980s onward in the form of today's women's, student, and youth movements in Iran. ""A Guerilla Odyssey"" is a meticulously researched and engrossing narrative that promises to be a major contribution to the field of Iranian history.

About the Author
Peyman Vahabzadeh is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. He is the author of Articulated Experience: Toward a Radical Phenomenology of Contemporary Social Movements.

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A major contribution to the field . . . one that will constitute an authoritative reference on recent Iranian history for decades to come.

This is a must read for those interested in understanding the ideological nuances of a movement that provided energy
and momentum for the 1979 Iranian revolution.





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ISBN 9780815632436
Author Peyman Vahabzadeh
Format Hardback
Page Count 320
Imprint Syracuse University Press
Publisher Syracuse University Press
Weight(grams) 595g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 27mm

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