Is the Shah's Move to Outlaw Tudor?

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The Shah is very much excited about the project. He was who sees it as a major threat to him because he's not interested in actually level this sort of degree of popular mobilization and being very much, you know, directed with a clear so grounded in a clear socialist vision. I mean, that's antithetical to everything he obviously represents and what he thinks is his birthright. The two days position on the coup which is kind of in many ways, the nail in the coffin. It also provides the context in which the two day is finally kind of decapitated internally,. And then loses this kind of mass politics element, which have been its lifeblood in the 40s.

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