| International Standard Book Number |
9780385550307 electronic book
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780385550314 hardcover
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| International Standard Book Number |
0385550316 hardcover
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| Personal Name |
Torbati, Yeganeh, author.
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| Title Statement |
Stolen revolution : betrayal and hope in modern Iran / Yeganeh Torbati and Bozorgmehr Sharafedin.
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| Edition Statement |
First Doubleday hardcover edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Doubleday, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
viii, 484 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
Exile -- The Common Enemy -- Triumph -- Government by Decree -- A Time for Extremism -- A Deepening Divide -- Pushed Out -- A New Generation -- Return -- Civil Society -- Backlash -- The Tyranny of Corrupt Governments -- Bad and Worse -- The Man of Saturday -- Hope -- The Green Movement -- The End of the World -- Crushed Hope -- Islamic Forgiveness -- A Turn Within -- A Green Field -- Compromise -- An Opening -- Startup Nation -- Liftoff -- A New Elite -- Princelings -- Ensnared -- The Squeeze -- Disillusionment -- A Time for Choosing -- Escape -- Raid -- A Thousand Enemies -- Rozhin -- Kosar -- Tehran -- Empty Pockets -- The New Face of Protest -- Betrayal -- Woman, Life, Freedom -- No Mercy -- A New Path.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"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. Stolen Revolution follows six Iranians who, together, have lived the arc of modern Iranian history: -Mehdi Karroubi, a devotee of Khomeini, rose to the heights of power before being cast out of the inner circle. He spurred the revolution's first calls for reform. -Hila Sedighi, a young activist, gave voice through her poetry to her peers' hopes during the reform years and ultimately voiced their shattered dreams. -Said Rahmani, a successful global tech entrepreneur, 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. -Amir Moghadam, an ambitious government bureaucrat, witnessed corruption and graft on a scale that impelled him to take enormous risks to expose the truth. -Rozhin Yousefzade and Kosar Eftekhari, both born in the 1990s, escaped their gendered destinies by leaving their hometowns for Tehran where they joined a mass movement in confrontation with a ferocious state apparatus: the Woman Life Freedom protests. Each paid an enormous price. Through a vivid and harrowing narrative, Stolen Revolution offers a visceral understanding of contemporary Iran, of life in a modern autocracy, and of the Iranian people's undying fight for a better future"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Iran Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Iran History 1979-1997.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Iran History 1997-
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Sharafedin, Bozorgmehr, author.
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