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• Machine generated contents note: Iranians scrutinizing their political system
• Mirza Malkam Khan's apologia for despotism
• Enter Montesquieu
• Towards a combined hypothesis of modern despotism
• Socio-psychological consequences of despotism
• modern despotic odyssey begins
• 1. Traumatized Post-Coup Society
• Remembering the 1953 Nekbat
• 2. General Zahedi Takes Power
• New standards
• press
• political opposition
• return of the British and Richard Nixon's visit
• 3. Complications of Securing an Oil Agreement
• interlocutors of the oil agreement
• Proponents and opponents of the oil negotiations
• Wiping out "traitors" of all shades
• Time for Zahedi to exit
• 4. Hoseyn Ala, a Prime Minister in Name
• Baghdad Pact: the Shah's new vision of foreign policy

• Settling scores with old allies turned bothersome nags
• Mosaddeq in quarantine
• Leniency towards ex-communists turned anti-communist
• Rigged elections and the Shah's dictatorial penchant
• birth of SAVAK
• British and American assessments of the Shah's rule
• Semblance of political acquiescence
• Double standards
• 5. Eqbal, The Obedient Prime Minister
• Playing with a constrained two-party system
• Eqbal's style of governance
• 6. Political Earthquakes and Ad Hoc Remedies
• Qarani Affair
• Fall of the Iraqi monarchy
• US pressure on the Shah to reform
• Shah's reluctant experimentation with reform
• fleeting flirtation with Khrushchev
• 7. Eqbal's Bunglings
• Student unrest
• first land reform law
• loyal multi-party system
• Uninvited guests
• Nitty-gritty of the first election to the Twentieth Majles
• 8. Engineer Sharif-em AMI, The Shah's New Political Fixer
• National Front takes the winter election seriously
• new breed of Mosaddeqist activist
• National Front's honeymoon with its student wing
• Who called the shots in the Twentieth Majles elections?
• 9. When Autocrats Sing Quasi-Democratic Serenades
• National Front in the Twentieth Majles
• Kennedy factor
• Firing on protesting students and teachers
• 10. Amini's Premiership: Promises, Promises
• In the absence of Ayatollah Borujerdi
• Amini's mixed messages
• Shah fears that the US wants to rule Iran through Amini
• Consequences of dissolving the Majles
• anti-corruption campaigns
• 11. Mosaddeqist Opposition Mobilizes
• Jalaliyeh referendum against the regime
• Aftermath of the opposition's show of force
• 12. Political Illusionism
• Testing Amini's liberalism
• Putting the freedom genie back into the bottle
• 13. Amini Against all Shades of Opposition
• Amini's crackdown on the National Front
• aftermath of the regime showing its teeth
• Iranians are not fit for democracy
• 14. Shah Gets His Way
• US assessment of Amini and democracy in Iran
• Why keep Amini if he cannot hem in the Shah?
• Student opposition to arbitrary rule
• Mounting repression of the opposition
• 15. By the Shah's Grace Amini Rules
• National Front's pushback
• National Front leadership falters
• government's intimidation campaign
• students do not stand down
• 16. Settling Scores with Tehran University
• Were National Front students manipulated by Amini's royalist opposition?
• Black Sunday at Tehran University
• Deep scars
• conspiracy theory
• Shah's dismal view of inquisitive students
• 17. National Front Students Looking Out of the Box
• Tough choices for the Shah and the opposition
• Students bonding with the masses
• What to do with politicized students?
• 18. Land Reform: The Believer, the Reluctant Facilitator, and the Political Beneficiary
• Farewell to Amini
• Royal melancholy and behind the scenes of Amini's dismissal
• moment of reckoning
• domestic consequences of reform
• 19. Alam Hands Over the Country to Its Owner
• Arsanjani pushes ahead with land reform
• Socio-economic reform without political reform
• White Revolution, a Western recipe for an enlightened despotism?
• Shah's symbiotic relationship with the West
• new consensus is reached with Western allies
• 20. Shah Blows Hot and Cold on the Opposition
• Wooing the National Front
• Tension simmering among students
• 21. Last National Front Congress
• organizational debate
• Iran Freedom Movement debate
• Debate over the bloody events at Tehran University
• students challenging the old guard leadership
• National Front coming apart at the seams
• 22. Government-Sponsored Celebration of Emancipated Peasants
• opening ceremony: the Shah connects with the free tenants
• White Revolution: hail the Shah
• Shah's new image: the just, crowned father
• Arsanjani conquers hearts; the Shah consolidates his crown
• referendum
• 23. Three-Headed Monster Opposing the White Revolution
• Tudeh Party boycotts the referendum
• Mosaddeqist and Khomeynist reaction
• regime's reaction to the opposition
• 24. Political and Religious Authorities Clash
• Khomeyni's first volleys
• Women's suffrage
• mud-slinging match
• first skirmishes
• Khomeyni does not call for stand-down
• Appeasing the National Front and dividing the opposition
• 25. Khomeyni's Partisans Take to the Streets
• Ashura in Tehran
• Ashura in Qom
• day after Ashura in Tehran
• June insurrection
• Tehran shell-shocked
• Mosaddeqist opposition's response
• Tudeh Party's response
• scapegoat
• 26. From Democratic Politics to Armed Struggle
• National Front collapses
• Iran Freedom Movement is gagged
• armed struggle alternative
• Tudeh Party's rare moment of calling for violence
• National Front students in Tehran throw patience to the wind
• 27. Changing of the Guard
• People's Congress of Free Men and Women
• Shah, Mansur, and Khosravani: the masterminds of the Twenty-First Majles
• Progressive Centre on the road to power
• 28. Year of Flying Bullets
• assassination of Mansur
• masterminds and perpetrators of the assassination
• Radicalized university students respond to Mansur's assassination
• Shamsabadi's attempt on the Shah's life
• Party of Islamic Nations rebels against the regime
• 29. Beloved Sun of the Aryans (Aryamehr)
• Transitioning to despotism
• US coming to terms with the Shah's transition to despotism
• comfortable calm in the land, or apathy out of fear?
• 30. euphoria of wearing the pahlavi crown
• Three elections in one
• Bonapartian coronation
• Intoxicated with power
• CONCLUSION
• Five stations on the road to despotism
• Did the Shah have a choice between democracy and despotism?
• Despotism manifest: a politically castrated people.

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Author/Creator:

Rāhnamā, ʻAlī , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The rise of modern despotism in Iran: the Shah, the opposition, and the US, 1953--1968 [by Rāhnamā, ʻ.]

Subjects:

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, 1919-1980

Iran — Politics and government — 1941-1979

Iran — History — Coup d'état, 1953

Iran — Foreign relations — United States

United States — Foreign relations — Iran

Iran — Politics and government — 1925-1979

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.
Description based on: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 29, 2021).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

DS318 .R2 2021eb

ISBNs:

9780861541430 (electronic bk.)
086154143X (electronic bk.)

OCLC Numbers:

1286278590

Other Control Numbers:

EBC6796812 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp302524289