Muhammad Musaddiq was the first of the great charismatic anti-colonial campaigners of the post-war world. As Prime Minis
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Table of contents :
Contents
Preface to the second edition
Preface to the third edition
1. From Mirza Mohammad to Dr Musaddiq al-Saltaneh (1882-1914)
2. Academic, administrator and politician
3. Opposition and isolation (1924-41)
4. Occupation and interregnum
5. The First Deputy
6. The Supplemental Agreement and the National Front
7. The Popular Movement and oil nationalization
8. Khalil Maleki and the Theory of the Popular Movement of Iran
9. Musaddiq's first government (May 1951-July 1952)
10. Musaddiq's second government (August 1952-August 1953)
11. The oil dispute and non-oil economics
12. Religion and rift in the Movement
13. The ways and means of overthrowing Musaddiq
14. Musaddiq' trials
15. The Popular Movement after the coup
16. Failure of the Second National Front
17. Musaddiq and the Third National Front
18. The Movement and the man
Notes
Index