Cover; The State and Revolution in Iran; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Preface; Introduction: Analytical Framework; 1. The Evolution of the State Structure; 2. The Old Regime: The Rule of the Monarchy; 3. The Rise of a Revolutionary Ideology: Resurgence of Islamic Nationalism; 4. The Crisis of the Economy and the Crisis of the Dictatorship; 5. The Coming of the Revolution; 6. Towards the Reconstitution of the State; 7. The Rule of the Fundamentalist Clergy; Postscript: The Thermidor; Conclusion; Select Bibliography; Index
Summary
This book analyses the distant and proximate causes of the 1978 revolution in Iran as well as the dynamics of power which it set in motion. The volume explains the complex and far-reaching processes which produced the revolution, beginning in the late nineteenth century. In explaining the more proximate causes of the revolution, the book analyses the nature of the old regime and its internal contradictions; the emergence of some fundamental conflicts of interest between the state and the upper class; the economic crisis of 1975-8 which made possible a revolutionary mass immobilisation; and
