Forgotten Years of Kurdish Nationalism in Iran

Abbas Vali is former Chair of Modern Social and Political Thought at the Department of Sociology, Bogazici University, Turkey.

• 1. Introduction: Modernity and the Emergence of Popular Politics in Iranian Kurdistan (Rojhelat).- 2. The Restoration of Sovereign Order and the Kurdish Resistance.- 3. The Revival of the Nationalist Movement.- 4. Coup d’État and Exile.- 5. Armed Action in Rojhelat.- 6. The Rise of the Left and the Search for a New Identity.- 7. The Formation and Structure of the Komalay Shoreshgeri Zahmatkeshani Kurdistani Eran (The Revolutionary Association of the Toilers of Iranian Kurdistan).- 8. The Revolutionary Rupture and the Political Field in Kurdistan: A Brief Survey.- 9. Conclusions: Genealogy of Violence—Sovereign Domination and Armed Resistance in Rojhelat.