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  • Publisher:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Publication date:
    January 2027
    March 2023
    ISBN:
    9781399511438
    9781399511414
    9781399511421
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    • Subjects:
    Middle East Studies, Area Studies, History, Middle East History
    Series:
    Edinburgh Historical Studies of Iran and the Persian World
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    Subjects:
    Middle East Studies, Area Studies, History, Middle East History
    Series:
    Edinburgh Historical Studies of Iran and the Persian World
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    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?

    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, The Loneliest Revolution revisits questions of leftist failure and Islamist victory and ultimately asks us all to probe the memories, personal and collective, that we leave unspoken.

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