Azerbaijan and the Two Day It's a Fatal Mistake

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The Shahra is basically pushing forward his white revolution which is obviously you know antithetical to the red revolution. The impetus for that is really coming from decades and decades of kind of struggle by socialists who were pushing for land reforms. Many of the positions of its sort of planks in the 1940s are taken up precisely by the post coup sort of increasingly authoritarian path of government.

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