The role of leftist fiction in the spread of guerrillaism and the armed struggles of guerrilla movements against the Pahlavi regime (A case study of the Iranian People's Devotion Guerrilla Organization)

Document Type : Original Article

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1 PhD student in Political Science, Faculty of Law, Theology and Political Science, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran
2 Associate Professor of Political Science, Faculty of Law, Theology and Political Science, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
3 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Law, Theology and Political Science, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
10.22034/irs.2025.546846.1309
Abstract
The main goal of this article, emphasizing the connection between literature and politics, is to examine the impact of fiction on the Iranian communist movement after the August 11 coup. In the domestic arena, political obstruction; widespread American influence; Land reforms, in the external arena of the radical student movement in the 1960s and in the ideological dimension, Latin American Marxism, which reduced the role of the working class to the level of small guerrilla nuclei, provided the grounds for revising and rejecting the civil methods of struggle of patriarchal parties such as the Tudeh Party and the National Front against the Pahlavi regime. With the splits in the Iranian communist movement, the People's Devotion Guerrillas Organization, which represented part of the movement's activities with an armed approach, began its violent struggle. However, in the ideological dimension, another variable also influenced these armed struggles that has been ignored. This article seeks to answer the question: "How do the themes of fiction affect the spread of guerrillaism and the armed struggles of guerrilla movements, especially the Devotion Guerrillas?" Did the people have an effect against the Pahlavi regime? The present study argues using a descriptive-explanatory and documentary method: "The themes of leftist fiction in the world and Iran, by combining the themes of the three schools of romanticism, critical
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