Iran: 1906-1941 w/ Eskandar Sadeghi & Golnar Nikpour
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The Social Democratic Movement in Azerbaijan
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.
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