Author: MEHRAIN, Fattaneh.
Title: Emergence of Capitalist Authoritarian States in Periphery Formations: A Case Study of Iran.
Description: University Microfilms International, 1988 (1979). Paperback. Condition vg. Facsimile copy of a Doctorate thesis. Aims to explain the emergence of an authoritarian capitalist state in Iran in the early 1920s. Argues that "...the mercantile mode of capital penetration into the Asiatic formation of Iran during the nineteenth century created a particular form of dominant class characterized by fractional and factional contradictions and led to a political stalemate. The political stalemate was between several competing political forces representing three major classes; the dominant Asiatic class, the dominat capitalist class and the dominated classes of the formation. The inability of the dominant classes to organize their interests at the economic level and achieve hegemonic rule at the political level, led to a chronic instability within the system. The stalemate was resolved by a foreign instigated coup that, via force, established an authoritarian capitalist state characterized by the hegemonic rule of foreign capital". Focuses on the periods 1906 - 1909 & 1919 - 1921. x, 295pp.

Keywords: history historical sociology sociological iran iranian 20th twentieth century politics political political science