The Social Democratic Movement in Azerbaijan

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There's a lot of cross-pollination between Iranians and other folks in the Caucasus and Russia in Baku as this kind of center of labor movement. And it's through these cross-pollinations that extraordinary social democratic movement emerges. The champions of the most expansive liberatory vision of what the constitutionalists are calling for is happening in these northern parts of Iran. That sounds so remarkable because the constitutional revolution is initially very much a liberal and elite one. But I would actually say there's a deeper challenge at stake.

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