Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Brief historical survey and introduction
  • Political career of Mohammad Ali Majd, Fatn ol Saltaneh: from supporter to opponent of the Pahlavis
  • Acquisition of land and wealth by Reza Shah
  • Background to land distribution: sale and distribution of Pahlavi estates, 1951-1962
  • Founding the agricultural union of Iran, 1959, Land Reform Law of May 1960, and cabinet decrees of 9 January 1962 and 17 January 1963
  • The vagary and perfidy of American policy
  • Selected publications and bulletins of the agricultural union of Iran and organizations of small landowners
  • Landowners' appeal to the Ulama and the response
  • America's role as seen by the opposition: conspiracy and betrayal
  • Suppressing the opposition and silencing the agricultural union of Iran
  • Theory and practice of land reform: case studies in landownership, taxation, and land distribution
  • The structure of landownership on the eve of land distribution: expropriation and plight of the small landowners
  • Toward a theory of landownership in Islamic Iran and some consequences of land distribution.