
WWCiv 16: Persia and Portugal get constitutions, 1909 and 1910
The Anti Empire Project with Justin Podur
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A couple of revolutions that have come up seem to be kind of bourgeois revolutions or constitutional revolutions closer to the Young Turks than I'd say the 1917 Russia. In England, being while opposed to particularly obnoxious monopoly contract for tobacco on the Shah. So all the leading bazaars, Shiraz, Tehran, Isfahan, Tabriz, Mashhad, Khazven, Yazd and Karman Shah, all go on a general strike. They issue a religious fatwa on tobacco. There's a consumer boycott. That shall not smoke. Yeah. This is chapter one of how to create an opposition for yourself.
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