Revolution and Reform in Russia and Iran : Modernisation and Politics in Revolutionary States.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; I. Revolution and Modernisation: The Theoretical Context; Introduction: The Case for Comparing Russia and Iran; Ambivalence towards Western Modernity: To Be or Not to Be (like the West); Revolution; Modernisation; II. Historical Patterns of Modernisation from Above Impetus for Change: Sustaining the Russian; Impetus for Change: Sustaining the Russian Bear and the Iranian Lion; Peter the Great: Russia's First Modernising Autocrat; Alexander's Great Reforms; Rapid Reconstruction under Reza Shah; III. Modernising Romanov Russia and Pahlavi Iran.

Crisis and the Urgency of ReformWitte's Industrialisation and Stolypin's Land Reforms; The Shah's Development Plans and the White Revolution; Conclusion; IV. Preserving the Russian Autocrat and the Iranian; The Tsar's Fundamental Laws versus the October Manifesto; The Shah's Democratic Centralism: Asiatic Despot versus Rastakhiz; Conclusion: One Step Forwards, Two Steps Back; V. The Revolutionary Movement and Moment; Popular Opposition towards an Unpopular Tsar; Paradoxical Alliances against a Paradoxical Reformist Shah; Conclusion.

VI. Post-Revolutionary Modernisation: Alternative ModernitiesSocialism in Soviet Russia; Theocracy in Islamic Iran; VII. Transcending the Modernisation Dilemma; Gorbachev's Ambivalent Modernisation; Putin's Adaptive Modernisation; Khatami's Reform Movement; Conclusion; VIII. Conclusion; Reflections on the Russian and Iranian Modernisation Experiments; Modernisation From Above to Modernisation from Below.

The Russian Revolutions of 1917 and the Iranian Revolution of 1979 are two examples of dramatic, sudden and extraordinary political upheaval that significantly altered the nature of the state and society in the modern age. Here, Ghoncheh Tazmini provides an unprecedented comparative study of these two major revolutions of the twentieth century, which although removed from each other both spatially and temporally, have striking similarities. Examining the roots, events and impact of these two defining upheavals, Tazmini analyses how they resemble each other, stressing the continuity of the dile.

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