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Autocracy, Modernization, and Revolution in Russia and Iran

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, (c)2014.Description: 1 online resource (250 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781400861620
Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • DK265 .A986 2014
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Contents:
Subject: What did the Russian revolution of 1917 and the Iranian revolution of 1978-1979 share besides their drama? How can we compare a revolution led by Lenin with one inspired by Khomeini? How is a revolution based primarily on the urban working class similar to one founded to a significant degree on traditional groups like the bazaaris, small craftsmen, and religious students and preachers? Identifying a distinctive route to modernity--autocratic modernization--Tim McDaniel explores the dilemmas inherent in the efforts of autocratic monarchies in Russia and Iran to transform their countries into.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Acknowledgments ; Introduction ; A Contradictory Route to Industrial Society; One ; Historical Legacies; Two ; Autocracy in Russia and Iran; Three ; Dimensions of Modernization; Four ; Dilemmas of Autocratic Modernization; Five; The Cities in Revolution; Six; Autocracy, Landlords, and Peasants; Seven ; Cultures of Rebellion; Conclusion ; Structural Crisis and Revolutionary Dynamics; Select Bibliography; Index

What did the Russian revolution of 1917 and the Iranian revolution of 1978-1979 share besides their drama? How can we compare a revolution led by Lenin with one inspired by Khomeini? How is a revolution based primarily on the urban working class similar to one founded to a significant degree on traditional groups like the bazaaris, small craftsmen, and religious students and preachers? Identifying a distinctive route to modernity--autocratic modernization--Tim McDaniel explores the dilemmas inherent in the efforts of autocratic monarchies in Russia and Iran to transform their countries into.

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