The loneliest revolution : a memoir of solidarity and struggle in Iran / Ali Mirsepassi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mirsepassi, Ali, author.

Series:

Edinburgh historical studies of Iran and the Persian world.

Edinburgh historical studies of Iran and the Persian world

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mirsepassi, Ali.

Political activists--Iran--Biography.

Political activists.

Iran--History--20th century--Biography.

Iran.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 250 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2023.

Summary:

In October 1978, a day that started like any other for Ali Mirsepassi - full of anti-Shah protests - ended in near death. He was stabbed and dumped in a ditch on the outskirts of Tehran for having spoken against Khomeini. In this account, Mirsepassi digs up this and other painful memories to ask: How did the Iranian revolutionary movement come to this? How did a people united in solidarity and struggle end up so divided?<br><br>In this first-hand account, Mirsepassi deftly weaves together his insights as a sociologist of Iran with his memories of provincial life and radical activism in 1960s and 1970s Iran. Attentive to the everyday struggles Iranians faced as they searched for ways to learn about and make history despite state surveillance and censorship, <i>The Loneliest Revolution</i> revisits questions of leftist failure and Islamist victory and ultimately asks us all to probe the memories, personal and collective, that we leave unspoken.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Mar 2025).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 264-272) and index.

ISBN:

1399511432

9781399511438

1399511440

9781399511445