Musaddiq and the struggle for power in Iran / Homa Katouzian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Katouzian, Homa.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mosaddeq, Mohammad, 1880-1967.

Mosaddeq, Mohammad.

Iran--History--Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, 1941-1979.

Iran.

History.

Prime ministers--Iran--Biography.

Prime ministers.

Anglo-Iranian Oil Dispute, 1951-1954.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xix, 305 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

Revised paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York : St. Martin's Press [distributor], 1999.

Summary:

Musaddiq and the Struggle for Power in Iran is the first substantial life of Iran's most controversial twentieth-century politician. Drawing upon the considerable amount of new material about Musaddiq published in Iran since the 1978/9 revolution, Homa Katouzian conveys a powerful sense of his subject and of the significance of the political issues that confronted him.

Muhammad Musaddiq was the first of the great charismatic anticolonial campaigners if the post-war world. As Prime Minister of Iran in the early fifties, he was often in direct conflict with the West and, in 1953, the CIA removed him from office in a coup d'etat that restored the Shah's absolute powers. This full-scale biography of Musaddiq sets his life and career against the genesis and development of the Popular Movement of Iran. It presents a detailed account of Musaddiq's background and political formation and examines the history of the Popular Movement from Musaddiq's downfall in 1953 to his death in 1967.

Contents:

1 From Mirza Mohammad to Dr Musaddiq al-Saltaneh (1882-1914) 1

2 Academic, administrator and politician 8

3 Opposition and isolation (1924-41) 22

4 Occupation and interregnum 39

5 The first deputy 51

6 The Supplemental Agreement and the National Front

7 The Popular Movement and oil nationalization 78

8 Khalil Maleki and the theory of the Popular Movement of Iran 95

9 Musaddiq's first government (May 1951-July 1952) 113

10 Musaddiq's second government (August 1952-August 1953) 126

11 The oil dispute and non-oil economics 137

12 Religion and rift in the Movement 156

13 The ways and means of overthrowing Musaddiq 177

14 Musaddiq's trials 194

15 The Popular Movement after the coup 208

16 The failure of the Second National Front 227

17 Musaddiq and the Third National Front 240

18 The Movement and the man 256.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-294) and index.

ISBN:

186064290X

OCLC:

42703506