Revolutionary Iran

A History Of The Islamic Republic

Hardcover, 400 pages

Published April 2, 2013 by Allen Lane.

ISBN:
978-1-84614-291-8
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OCLC Number:
828848537

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4 stars (1 review)

"In Revolutionary Iran, Michael Axworthy guides us through recent Iranian history from shortly before the 1979 Islamic revolution through the summer of 2009, when Iranians poured into the streets of Tehran by the hundreds of thousands, demanding free, democratic government. Axworthy explains how that outpouring of support for an end to tyranny in Iran paused and then moved on to other areas in the region like Egypt and Libya, leaving Iran's leadership unchanged. The Iranian Revolution of 1979 was a defining moment of the modern era. Its success unleashed a wave of Islamist fervor across the Middle East and signaled a sharp decline in the appeal of Western ideologies in the Islamic world. Axworthy takes readers through the major periods in Iranian history over the last thirty years: the overthrow of the old regime and the creation of the new one; the Iran-Iraq war; the reconstruction era following the war; …

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This is an interesting book but if anything it's too ambitious in what it's seeking to cover. There's a lot of history to cover in explaining the background to the Islamic Revolution, the Revolution itself and then the way Iran has progressed since then. Because there's so much going on, and Axworthy is determined to cover it all, it can feel breathless at times, jumping from event to event without much of a pause for breath or deeper analysis. It's very good as an overview of everything that's happened, but it'll likely leave you wanting more depth on the issues that most interest.