The Russian Suppression of the Iranian Constitutional Movement
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Edward G. Browne, edited by Hasan Javadi
Paperback 5.5" x 8.5" 324 pages
1933823259
$35
July 2008
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In August 1907, while Iran was in the
throes of its Constitutional Revolution,
Britain and Russia concluded a secret agreement to divide the
country between themselves into zones of influence. In 1910 with
the tacit support of the British, Tsarist Russia occupied northwest
Iran and violently suppressed the constitutional movement in Tabriz,
the northwestern city which was at the center of the constitutional
movement. The ferocity of the Russian occupation took the leaders
of the constitutionalists by surprise, and in desperation they cried out
for help to democratic nations.
Edward G. Browne was a scholar and professor at Cambridge
University who wrote The Persian Revolution and the four-volume
Literary History of Persia. He supported the constitutionalists in word
and deed. Appalled by the British government’s acquiescence of the
Russian atrocities in Tabriz, he tried through letters to the editor,
political lobbying, and the writing of pamphlets to mobilize public
opinion to force the British government to intervene with Russia.
Letters from Tabriz is the publication, prepared by Browne, of the
letters sent to him by Iranian constitutionalist leaders describing, in
rousing eyewitness accounts, the Russian atrocities in Tabriz. Its full
publication was stifled because of the Anglo-Russian partnership prior
to World War I, and it has never been published in English until now.
Edward G. Browne was a scholar and professor at Cambridge University who wrote The Persian Revolution and the four-volume Literary History of Persia. He supported the constitutionalists in word and deed. Appalled by the British government’s acquiescence of the Russian atrocities in Tabriz, he tried through letters to the editor, political lobbying, and the writing of pamphlets to mobilize public opinion to force the British government to intervene with Russia.
Hasan Javadi was born in Tabriz, Iran to a distinguished family of administrators and scholars. He has taught English and Persian literature at the University of Cambridge, Tehran University and the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author and translator of numerous books, including Satire in Persian Literature, and Persian Literary Influence on English Literature. For Mage he translated Obeyd-E Zakani: Ethics of the Aristocrats and Other Satirical Works. Now retired, Dr. Javadi lives in the Washington DC area, where he is working on original scholarship and translations of Persian literature.)
