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UFPPC (www.ufppc.org) (www.ufppc.org) Digging Deeper: May 29, 2006, 7:00 p.m. Charles Kurzman, The Unthinkable Revolution in London: Harvard University Press, 2004).
“I have tried in this book to pull p ull together all the evidence I could on ordinary Iranians’ perceptions of the revolutionary movement movement . . . the relative lack of source material on nonelites matters. . . . This book’s sole prediction is that the emergence of such voices will confirm the confusion and unpredictability that are the focus of the present p resent analysis” (184-85). Preface. As HS student, author
ignorantly participated in anti-Iran demonstration outside Saudi-affiliated mosque (vii). (vii). “W “We e can only only guess at the future. We cannot know how people will will act in a situation of confusion until it is upon them” (viii-ix). Ch. 1: Introduction. Oct. 27, 1978:
CIA says shah “is expected to remain actively in power over the next ten years” (1-2). U.S. Ambassador Ambassador to Iran William Sullivan’s Nov. 9 memo, “Thinking the Unthinkable” (2). Khomeini’s conviction that the revolution would soon succeed (2-4). (2-4). Revolution Revolution
Iran
(Cambridge, MA &
and the Shah; political explanat the latter’s latter’s fall (12-15). Theda and “bringing the state back in” explanations of revolution revolution (15-1 (15-1 liberalization phase in Iran in 19 21). Khomeini’s attitude (21-24 1977, “Khomeini’s followers clea began to mobilize”; author has order from Khomeini ordering th Premature Premature death of Mostafa Kho Ruhollah’s eldest son & chief aid Iraq, on Oct. 23, 1977, in his mi leads to political opposition to s 30). Assertions that some thres been achieved, giving the move greater viability , seem more imp than the shah’s liberalization pe 32). Ch. 3: Mobilization of the Network: Organizational Organizational Explanations (Early 1978).
insults Khomeini in article publis 7, 1978, to violent prote Sign upleading to vote on this title 37).The network: 9,0 Usefulmosque Not useful mosques, enjoying a certain aut from the regime regime (37-40). (37-40). State
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show (56-58). (56-58). July-Sept. 1978 1978 revival revival of movement (58-64). Weakness of Islamism as ideology in 1978 (64-68). Martyrdom as Shi‘i institution “is a red herring” as an explanation, as is shown by actual events and comparison with other cultures cultures (68-73). Martial law law declared Sept. 8, 1978; “Black Friday” crackdown (73-76). Ch. 5: 5: General Strike: Economic Explanations (Fall 1978). Strikes
spread across Iran in Sept. 1978 (77-79). Iran’s economic distress (79-83). Difficulties with economic explanations of revolution (83-86). Effects of “the oil boom of 1973-1974” (86-90). Pattern of dashed expectations, inequality, and corruption “known in the economic literature as ‘the Dutch disease’ was not stronger in Iran than other countries, however (91-96). Macroeconomic data (96-99). Comparison of villagers, poor urban migrants, bazaaris, and university students shows no correlation between economics and revolutionary activism (99-104). Ch. 6: Failure of the Fist: Military Explanations (Winter 1978-1979).
Shah appoints military government in early Nov. 1978 (105-07). Explanations Explana tions
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(131-33). But actors cannot pre own behavior: behavior : “I can’t” (133-35 viable alternative is a movemen seems to have a realistic chanc success” (136). Analysis of Iran “The critical mass moment bega in late 1977, when Khomeini’s f started to mobilize against the s (136). “In late summer 1978, 1978, movement became ‘viable’ in th of many Iranians outside the revolutionary circle” (137). “[V] may be dated to mid-November (137). “Viability is non-predic “What is left when we part from retroactive retroactive prediction? Underst (138). Iranian culture culture of inner inner & self limits national solidarity, bu revolution created solidarity (13 Khomeini’s prestige came not fr ideology but from his having c viable movement movement (142). (142). The at liberals (143-45), left opposition (145-48), the “disorganized left” centered in the student movem 50), feminists (150-52), all dem the importance importa nce of viability viabilit y. Non participation became dangerous 54).Sign Analysis thetitle “stalemate up to voteof on this from mid-Nov . 1978 to the colla Useful Not useful mid-Nov. regime — due to an unplanned on Feb. 9-11, 1979 (154-62).
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suggest that the reproduction of practices from one moment to the next actually requires work and cannot be taken for granted” (171).
memoirs, oral history projects, a wave of analyses (180-81).
About the Sources. Khomeini
References. 36 documentary
encouraged documentation of revolutionary movement (175). Early documentary collections valuable (17677). Early wave wave of explanatory accounts based accounts of revolution on dubious journalistic sources (177-78). Islamists’ documentary collections (178-80). Élite
Notes. 51 pp.
collections, 47 periodicals, 591 essays.
Acknowledgments. Neil Sme
dissertation committee. Index. 5 pp.
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