Iranian Nationalist Historiography - Reza Shah's Fascism

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Reza Shah tried to make Iran a more stable nation. He made forced unveiling of women, Western style suits and hats part of his sartorial changes. There's an apocalyptic kind of narrative in one strain of the nationalist thought that Azashah is the singular figure that stops this from happening. Without him, there would be no Iran on the map today. That's the stakes.

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