Khatami and Gorbachev : Politics of Change in the Islamic Republic of Iran and the USSR
\ Zhand Shakibi
London , New York
: Tauris Academic Studies , I.B. Tauris
, 2010
viii,391 p.
International library of political studies
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Index
Introduction -- Religion, empire and Homo Romanovicus/Pahlavicus -- Westernisation, authenticity and revolution -- Leninism and Khomeinism -- Institutionalised Leninism and Khomeinism -- Khatami-Gorbachev: the human factor -- The geo-politics of reform -- The politics of glasnost -- Gorbachev and the politics of change -- Khatami and the politics of change -- Conclusion