Social movements in twentieth-century Iran : culture, ideology, and mobilizing frameworks / Stephen C. Poulson.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-328) and index.

Introduction -- Foundations of social movement theory -- Culture and anchoring social movement narratives in Islamic history -- Culture and traditional forms of symbolic protest in Iranian history -- Social structure : relations between the religious elite, the bazaar, the state, and the crowd in Iran -- Social structure : British and Russian intervention in Iran -- The tobacco movement (1890-92) -- The constitutional revolution (1906-9) -- Post World War II nationalist movements : the Tudeh and the National Front (1944-53) -- Ideology and movement frames of the Iranian religious revival (1962-1978) -- Post revolutionary movements in modern Iran -- A century of social movements in Iran.