Iran, 1941-1953: Tudeh, Mosaddegh, Oil, and the CIA-MI6 Coup
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The History of the Tudet Party in Iran
The relationship of indigenous Communist parties to the Soviet Union is something, I mean, it's a global question in the era. Intellectuals are seceding from the Tudet Party and there's splits in its membership that are really about a kind of nationalist sentiment. This is an important prehistory to that 1951 to 1953 moment with Mosada X effort at oil nationalization because this really becomes the question,. Now, this is again a bigger question in broader socialist communist politics at this time.
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