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A World-Historical Movement
Turkmens' Radical Democratic Experience
From: For Land and Culture
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In this chapter, Vahabzadeh examines how the Turkmen Council Movement of 1979 in Iran represented a grassroots, participatory experiment in self-governance during the transition from the Shah’s dictatorship to a new order.
Contributors
Peyman Vahabzadeh
Peyman Vahabzadeh is a professor of sociology at the University of Victoria. He is the author of several books, including The Art of Defiance: Dissident Culture and Militant Resistance in 1970s Iran; Violence and Nonviolence: Conceptual Excursions into Phantom Opposites; and A Rebel’s Journey: Mostafa Sho‘aiyan and Revolutionary Theory in Iran. He is also editor of Iran’s Struggles for Social Justice: Economics, Agency, Justice, Activism and co-editor, with Samir Gandesha, of Crossing Borders: Essays in Honour of Ian Angus. He has published nine books of poetry, fiction, literary criticism and memoir in Persian and his works have appeared in English, Persian, German, Kurdish, French and Spanish.
