Social Movements in Twentieth-Century Iran

Stephen C. Poulson is Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at James Madison University.

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.

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Foundations of Social Movement Theory Part 3 Part 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 Part 8 Part 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