The Shah, the Islamic Revolution and the United States

• Main Author: Bayandor, Darioush (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Middle East-History.; History, Modern.; World politics.; Imperialism.; History of the Middle East.; Modern History.; Political History.; Imperialism and Colonialism.

The Islamic Revolution in 1979 transformed Iranian society and reshaped the political landscape of the Middle East. Four decades later, Darioush Bayandor draws upon heretofore untapped archival evidence to reexamine the complex domestic and international dynamics that led to the Revolution. Beginnin...

Table of Contents:

• I. The Pre-Revolution Setting
• 1. A Retrospective
• 2. Nezam Shahanshahi: The Shah's Imperial Order
• II. Onset of the Revolution
• 3. Downslide
• 4. The Opposition
• 5. Changing Tack (1976-1977)
• III. The Revolution
• 6. 1977: The Year of All Dangers
• 7. The Spark (Spring 1978)
• 8. Actors, Strategies and Structures
• 9. The Abadan File
• 10. Appeasement and Recoil
• 11. October Countdown
• 12. November Countdown
• 13. The Military Spell: Prime Minister Gholamreza Azhari
• 14. Carter's Quandry
• 15. The USSR and the Iranian Revolution
• 16. The Dawn of a New Era
• 17. The American Attempt at Dialogue with Ayatollah Khomeini
• 18. Swansongs
• 19. The Collapse.