Call to Arms: Iran's Marxist Revolutionaries - (Radical Histories of the Middle East) by Ali Rahnema (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>On 8 February 1971, Marxist revolutionaries attacked the gendarmerie outpost at the village of Siyahkal in Iran's Gilan province. Barely two months later, the Iranian People's Fada'i Guerrillas officially announced their existence and began a long, drawn-out urban guerrilla war against the Shah's regime. <p/>In <i>Call to Arms</i>, Ali Rahnema provides a comprehensive history of the Fada'is, beginning by asking why so many of Iran's best and brightest chose revolutionary Marxism in the face of absolutist rule. He traces how radicalised university students from different ideological backgrounds morphed into the Marxist Fada'is in 1971, and sheds light on their theory, practice and evolution. While the Fada'is failed to directly bring about the fall of the Shah, Rahnema shows they had a lasting impact on society and they ultimately saw their objective achieved.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>'Ali Rahnema has produced the most comprehensive and deeply engaging narrative to date of the revolutionary left in Iran during the 1970s... A masterwork, a must-read!'--Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University<br><br>'Rahnema has done the staggeringly difficult task of offering us a meticulously researched history of the life and times of the Fada?is in late-Pahlavi Iran.'--Roham Alvandi, Associate Professor of International History, London School of Economics and Political Science<br><br>'<i>Call to Arms</i> is a significant study of Iran's militant left in the 1960s and 1970s. By exploring a broad range of primary and secondary source material it closely examines the formation and operational dynamics of Iran's radical opposition during the Cold War.'--Ali Gheissari, Professor of History, University of San Diego<br><br>'Delivers like a ray of hope... This book is an act of redemption, not just of the Iranian Marxist revolutionaries but of the spirit of the age that demanded armed uprising against tyranny.'--Hamid Dabashi, Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature, Columbia University<br><br>'Meticulous and riveting, this book works like a time-tunnel, taking us back to experience "first-hand" the dramatic heroics and painful tragedy of radical political opposition in 1960s-1970s Iran.'-- "Afshin Matin-Asgari, author of Both Eastern and Western: An Intellectual History of Iranian Modernit"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Ali Rahnema</b> is Professor of Economics at the American University of Paris. He is the author of <i>An Islamic Utopian: A Political Biography of Ali Shari'ati</i>, <i>Behind the 1953 Coup in Iran</i> and <i>Superstition as Ideology in Iranian Politics</i>.
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