Book Review: A Social Revolution: Politics and the Welfare State in Iran, by Kevan Harris
A Social Revolution acts as a much-needed corrective to a lot of the academic and policy literature on contemporary Iran.
by Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi
A Social Revolution: Politics and the Welfare State in Iran, by Kevan Harris. Oakland: University of California Press, 2017. 326 pages. $85 cloth; $29.95 paper; $29.95 E-book.
In the spring of 2009 the eminent historian of modern Iran Ervand Abrahamian wrote an article entitled, “Why the Islamic Republic Has Survived.” There…
