Iran and the First World War
Battleground of the Great Powers
1st Edition
Published on 28. June 2006
240 pages
978-1-78672-467-0 (ISBN)
Description
The First World War, leading to the overthrow of the Qajar regime and replacement by Reza Shah, was pivotal in the history of modern Iran. The Constitutional Revolution of 1906-09 aimed to abolish the arbitrary regime and bring in a modern constitution and parliament. But growing provincial unrest and rebellion by nomadic peoples brought chaos and instability, heightened by the strains of war and intervention by foreign powers. Iran was on the brink of disintegration, modernisation had failed, and growing frustration and pressure from the disillusioned middle classes, intelligentsia and urban population, set the stage for centralisation of power under the `Man of Order' - Reza Shah.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-78672-467-0 (9781786724670)
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Book
06/2006
I.B. Tauris
€193.13
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Person
Touraj Atabaki is Professor of Modern History at the University of Amsterdam and senior Research Fellow at the International Institute of Social History.
Content
- Front Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of Contents
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Transliteration
- 1. The First World War, Great Power Rivalries and the Emergence of a Political Community in Iran
- 2. The Iranian Provisional Government
- 3. Going East: The Ottomans' Secret Service Activities in Iran
- 4. Iranian Nationalism and the Government Gendarmerie
- 5. A Kurdish Warlord on the Turkish-Persian Frontier in the Early Twentieth Century: Isma'il Aqa Simko
- 6. Ahmad Kasravi on the Revolt of Sheikh Mohammad Khiyabani
- 7. Pan-Turkism and Iranian Nationalism
- 8. The Populists of Rasht: Pan-Islamism and the Role of the Central Powers
- 9. The Council for International Propaganda and the Establishment of the Iranian Communist Party
- Notes
- Index
