PART I. THE IRANIAN LEFT: OVERVIEWS AND BALANCE SHEETS --The Iranian left in international perspective /Fred Halliday --From social democracy to social democracy : the twentieth-century odyssey of the Iranian left / Afshin Matin-Asgari --PART II. THE IRANIAN LEFT: HISTORICAL DIMENSIONS --Armenian social democrats, the Democrat Party of Iran, and Iran-i naw : a secret camaraderie /Janet Afary --The first congress of peoples of the east and the Iranian Soviet Republic of Gilan, 1920-21 /Pezhmann Dailami --Iran's forgotten revolutionary : Abulqasim Lahuti and the Tabriz insurrection of 1922 /Stephanie Cronin --Incommodious hosts, invidious guests : the life and times of Iranian revolutionaries in the Soviet Union, 1921-39 /Touraj Atabaki --The strange politics of Khalil Maleki /Homa Behrooz --The Iranian revolution and the legacy of the guerrilla movement /Maziar Behrooz --PART III. THE IRANIAN LEFT AND THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC: CONTEMPORARY CRITIQUES --Troubled relationships : women, nationalism and the left movement in Iran /Haideh Moghissi --The tragedy of the Iranian left /Ali Mirsepassi --The left and the struggle for democracy in Iran / Saeed Rahnema --The Islamic left : from radicalism to liberalism / Ervand Abrahamian --The working class and the Islamic state in Iran / Haideh Moghissi,Saeed Rahnema.