Social Movements in Twentieth-Century Iran

Stephen C. Poulson investigates cycles of social protest in Iran from 1890 to the present era. This work covers the following social movements: the 1890-92 Tobacco Movement; the 1906-09 Constitutional Revolution; two post-World War II movements, the Tudeh (Masses) and the National Front; the 1963 Qom Protest; and the 1978-79 Iranian Revolution. Poulson shows how various Iranian political actors have framed their dissent, drawing on both regional and Western-influenced modes of protest to achieve their ends.

In this work Stephen C. Poulson, a scholar of collective action and social movements, investigates cycles of social protest in Iran from 1890 to the present era. He illuminates the following social movements: the 1890-1892 Tobacco Movement; the 1906-1909 Constitutional Revolution; two post-World War II movements, the Tudeh (Masses) and the National Front; the 1963 Qom Protest; and the 1978-1979 Iranian Revolution. These movements confronted two primary questions: How should the Iranian state achieve independence in the world and what rights should individual Iranians enjoy in their political and social system? Poulson examines the framing of these questions and their answers by various Iranian political actors over time, revealing both continuity and change.

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Foundations of Social Movement Theory
Chapter 3
Chapter I: Culture, Social Structure, and Unifying Narratives in Twentieth Century Iran
Chapter 4 Culture and Anchoring Social Movement Narratives in Islamic History
Chapter 5 Culture and Traditional Forms of Symbolic Protest in Iranian History
Chapter 6 Social Structure: Relations Between the Religious Elite, the Bazaar, the State, and the Crowd in Iran
Chapter 7 Social Structure: British and Russian Intervention in Iran
Chapter 8
Chapter II: Cycles of Protest and the Negotiation of Movement Frames in Twentieth Century Iran
Chapter 9 The Tobacco Movement (1890-1892)
Chapter 10 The Constitutional Revolution (1906-1909)
Chapter 11 Post World War II Nationalist Movements: The Tudeh and the National Front (1944-1953)
Chapter 12 Ideology and Movement Frames of the Iranian Religious Revival (1962-1978)
Chapter 13 Post-Revolutionary Movements in Modern Iran
Chapter 14 A Century of Social Movements in Iran