Stolen Revolution - Betrayal and Hope in Modern Iran

A deeply moving portrait of the lives of Iranians across five decades, from the Iranian Revolution to the inspiring Woman Life Freedom protests, tracing the promise of the revolution, its betrayal by forces of autocracy, and a people’s undying spirit of resistance The 1979 revolution in Iran swept aside a monarchy, fueled by a people’s dreams of social justice and political freedom. But the movement’s leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, and his acolytes instead built a system that served their narrow faction and worsened beyond imagination the brutality and corruption that had existed under the Shah. Through a vivid and harrowing narrative,

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• Authors: Bozorgmehr Sharafedin, Yeganeh Torbati
• Publisher: Doubleday Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 02.06.2026
• EAN: 9780385550314
• ISBN: 978-0-385-55031-4
• No. of pages: 496
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 235 mm x 32 mm
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous