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Land and Revolution in Iran, 1960-1980 (Paperback)
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Land and Revolution in Iran, 1960-1980 (Paperback)
Series: CMES Modern Middle East Series
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Loot Price R492
Discovery Miles 4 920
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Carried out by the government of the shah between 1962 and 1971,
the Iranian land reform was one of the most ambitious such
undertakings in modern Middle Eastern history. Yet, beneath
apparent statistical success, the actual accomplishments of the
program, in terms of positive benefits for the peasantry, were
negligible. Later, the resulting widespread discontent of thousands
of Iranian villagers would contribute to the shah's downfall. In
the first major study of the effects of this widely publicized
program, Eric Hooglund's analysis demonstrates that the primary
motives behind the land reform were political. Attempting to
supplant the near-absolute authority of the landlord class over the
countryside, the central government hoped to extend its own
authority throughout rural Iran. While the Pahlavi government
accomplished this goal, its failure to implement effective
structural reform proved to be a long-term liability. Hooglund, who
conducted field research in rural Iran throughout the 1970s and who
witnessed the unfolding of the revolution from a small village,
provides a careful description of the development of the land
reform and of its effects on the main groups involved: landlords,
peasants, local officials, merchants, and brokers. He shows how the
continuing poverty in the countryside forced the migration of
thousands of peasants to the cities, resulting in serious shortages
of agricultural workers and an oversupply of unskilled urban labor.
When the shah's government was faced with mass opposition in the
cities in 1978, not only did a disillusioned rural population fail
to support the regime, but thousands of villagers participated in
the protests that hastened the collapse of the monarchy.
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