The Importance of the State Project in the Early Pathavi Period

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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.

Featuring Eskandar Sadeghi and Golnar Nikpour on the history of modern Iran, from 1906 through the present. This episode is the first in a four-part series, covering the period from 1906 until 1941, from the Constitutional Revolution that imposed constitutional limits on the Qajar dynasty through the 1921 coup that brought to power Reza Khan—who then in 1925 deposed the Qajars and became Reza Shah, the first shah of the Pahlavi dynasty. We end just before the 1941 occupation of Iran by longtime imperial powers, Britain and the Soviet Union, which forced Reza Shah out and replaced him with his son, Muhammad Reza Shah—which is where we will pick up in episode two. RIP Mike Davis. Listen to his Dig interviews here: thedigradio.com/tag/mike-davis Please support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig Read our newsletters and explore our vast archives at thedigradio.com