Information and Tourism, Ministry of Archives - Foundation for Iranian Studies بنیاد مطالعات ایران Sun, 10 Jul 2022 23:52:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://fis-iran.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/cropped-Dark-w-Color-1-32x32.png Information and Tourism, Ministry of Archives - Foundation for Iranian Studies 32 32 Qasemi, Mehdi Baradaran https://fis-iran.org/oral-history/qasemi-mehdi-baradaran/ Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:07:02 +0000 https://fisiran.org/oral-history/qasemi-mehdi-baradaran/ Family background and early political socialization; joining the Tudeh Party; Party’s structure and method of recruitment; relations between the Tudeh Party and the government between 1941 and 1945; Tudeh Party’s...

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]]> Family background and early political socialization; joining the Tudeh Party; Party’s structure and method of recruitment; relations between the Tudeh Party and the government between 1941 and 1945; Tudeh Party’s appeal to the youth; internal ideological divisions within the Tudeh Party; intellectual and political climate within the Tudeh Party; role of the intellectuals in the Party; Tudeh Party and the Azarbayjan Crisis of 1945-46; on Khalil Maleki and the balance-sheet of his activities; relations between Tudeh Party and the National Front; on the Tudeh Party cells within the military; on Nureddin Kiyanuri and his leadership of the Party; on Mozaffar Firuz and Ahmad Qavam; government reaction to Tudeh Party’s activities; recollections of imprisonment as a Tudeh activist; on the mode of operation of the Tudeh Party; on the deaths of Lankarani and Ghaffari; on Fereydun Keshavarz’s recent polemic against the Tudeh Party; reasons for leaving the Party; on the government’s decision to coopt former Tudeh activists; recollections of employment at the Ministry of Information and Tourism, and Radio Iran; recollections of Nosratollah Mo`iniyan and General Hasan Pakravan; reminiscences of participation in drawing up the constitution of the Rastakhiz Party; on the causes of the Revolution of 1978-79.

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]]> Homayun, Daryush https://fis-iran.org/oral-history/homayun-daryush/ Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:08:15 +0000 https://fisiran.org/oral-history/homayun-daryush/ Recollections of childhood; political activism among Iranian youth in the 1940s; nationalism in Iran during the Reza Shah period; establishing the Ayandegan Daily; government restrictions on the operation of newspapers;...

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]]> Recollections of childhood; political activism among Iranian youth in the 1940s; nationalism in Iran during the Reza Shah period; establishing the Ayandegan Daily; government restrictions on the operation of newspapers; reminiscences of the activities of the Franklin Institute in Tehran; on the formation of a writers’ association; on the nature and extent of political socialization of Iranians during the Pahlavi period; changes in the political orientation of Iranians during the late Pahlavi period; on Hoveyda’s premiership; origins, workings and agenda of the Rastakhiz Party; premiership of Jamshid Amuzegar; on Ettela`at Newspaper’s inflammatory article against Ayatollah Khomeini in 1977; recollections of the Iranian political scene in the months leading to the Revolution.

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