Tudor and Azerbaijan

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In 1945, the Soviet Union announced their support for groups fighting for autonomy or secession in Azerbaijan and Kurdistan. Ehsalat Abadi famously wrote an article calling for if we're going to give a concession to the British, then one should also consider giving a concession to Russia. This basically creates a huge amount of outcry, not only amongst his membership, but obviously within broader Iranian society. But even that sort of that example, and actually what was the policies carried out by the Democratic Party of Azerbaijan were extremely extremely, I think, important and extremely progressive in many ways.

Featuring Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi and Golnar Nikpour on the history of modern Iran. This is the second episode in our four-part series. We begin in 1941 with the British-Soviet occupation of Iran, the ouster of Reza Shah and his replacement by his son, Mohammad Reza Shah. We continue with the rise of the Tudeh communist party, the nationalization of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, Mohammad Mosaddegh's National Party coming to power, and the 1953 US-British coup that overthrew Mosaddegh and reinstalled Mohammad Reza Shah as dictator. His brutal reign continued until the 1979 Islamic Revolution, which is where we will pick up in episode three. Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig Check out The Sinking Middle Class by David Roediger haymarketbooks.org/books/1879-the-sinking-middle-class