Iran: 1906-1941 w/ Eskandar Sadeghi & Golnar Nikpour
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The Importance of the State Project in the Early Pathavi Period
In 1935, Reza Shah announced that he wants the country to be known as Iran. He had it's a Tbilisi born figure by the name of Nikolai Markov and he was known to Reza Shah because they had served together in the Khosakh Brigade. So you start to see all that there are these kind of material links between these earlier efforts to centralize the state. Now part of that state centralization project is actually these new institutions that are invested with the power to transform the cultural makeup to nationalize Iran.
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