Volume 27, Number 11 · June 26, 1980
The Iranian Revolution
By Shaul Bakhash
Iran: From Religious Dispute to Revolution
by Michael M.J. Fischer
Harvard University Press, 303 pp., $17.50
The Rise and Fall of the Shah
by Amin Saikal
Princeton University Press, 279 pp., $14.50
The Fall of the Shah
by Fereydoun Hoveyda, translated by Roger Liddell
Wyndham Books, 221 pp., $9.95
The history of the Iranian revolution has been a history of misperceptions. The Shah was thought to run a tightly controlled autocracy and to command the most powerful military machine in the Persian Gulf region. Yet it required no more than thirteen months of largely peaceful demonstrations, Xeroxed leaflets, and crudely reproduced tapes to bring his regime down. His vaunted 400,000-man army collapsed in just two fateful days in February 1979.
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