Bücher von Habib Ladjevardi

Harvard Iranian Oral History Project memoirs of the wife of General Hassan Pakravan, who was the head of Iranian intelligence during Khomeini's first uprising in 1963. He was executed by the Islamic Republic shortly after the 1979 revolution. It provides fascinating details of the workings of the elite during the reign of Mohammad-Reza Pahlavi.

Ladjevardi follows the rise and ebb of political development in Iran from 1906 to the recent past by looking at one aspect of political growth: the emergence of labor unions. Presenting a history of the labor movement in Iran, he begins with the genesis of the movement from 1906 to 1921.