Stolen Revolution Betrayal and Hope in Modern Iran
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Sprache:Englisch
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24,00 €
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49235
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
04.06.2026
Verlag
Penguin Books LtdSeitenzahl
496
Maße (L/B/H)
23,4/15,6/4 cm
Gewicht
625 g
Farbe
Anthrazit / Grau
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-241-74404-8
'Blistering . . . a genuinely remarkable achievement' THE TIMES
'Compulsively readable . . . unputdownable' JON LEE ANDERSON
'Dramatic, personal and often heartbreaking' GUARDIAN
'Rarely has a book been so timely . . . Essential reading' LINDSEY HILSUM
'One of the most perceptive books on modern Iran in years' NEW YORK TIMES
The moving, riveting and immersive story of six Iranians who, together, lived the entire arc of modern Iranian history: from the promise of the 1979 revolution to its betrayal by the Islamic mafia state and a people's undying spirit of resistance.
Fuelled by Iranians' dreams of social justice and political freedom, the 1979 revolution swept aside the shah's ailing, repressive monarchy. But in its place the revolution's leader Ayatollah Khomeini and his acolytes built a system that served his narrow Islamic fundamentalist faction and worsened every failing and brutality that had existed under the shah. In this landmark new book, award-winning journalists Bozorgmehr Sharafedin and Yeganeh Torbati tell the entwined stories of six Iranians, providing a powerful new lens on Iran's recent history in all its bitter twists and stubborn hope:
- Mehdi Karroubi: a devotee of Khomeini, he rose to the heights of power on the wave of the revolution, before being cast out of its inner circle.
- Hila Sedighi: a young activist, who gave voice through her poetry to her peers' hopes during the reform years and ultimately immortalised their shattered dreams.
- Amir Moghadam: an ambitious government bureaucrat, who witnessed corruption and graft on a scale that impelled him to take enormous risks to expose the truth.
- Said Rahmani: a successful global tech entrepreneur who returned to Iran to spark a start-up boom in his native country, and encountered a ruthless security state that wanted his company for itself.
- Rozhin Yousefzadeh and Kosar Eftekhari: both born in the 1990s, they escaped their gendered destinies by leaving their hometowns for Tehran, where they joined a mass movement that confronted a ferocious state apparatus: the Woman Life Freedom protests. Each paid an enormous price.
Through vivid and original reporting, Stolen Revolution offers a compulsively readable new story of Iran, centring ordinary Iranians' lives, whilst providing a visceral understanding of how life is actually lived under a modern authoritarian state. This is a harrowing story of power, corruption and greed - and those brave individuals who fought back.
'The definitive inside story of how the ideals behind Iran's revolution were subverted and crushed - and of the brave Iranians who still keep those dreams alive' CATHERINE BELTON, author of PUTIN'S PEOPLE
'Profoundly affecting . . . One of the most incisive works on Iranian society in a generation' SCOTT ANDERSON, author of KING OF KINGS
'Excellent . . . tells the tragic but often inspiring story of Iran over the last fifty years . . . Essential' JASON BURKE, author of THE REVOLUTIONISTS
'Extraordinarily powerful' JACK STRAW
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