Call to Arms

'Ali Rahnema has produced the most comprehensive and deeply engaging narrative to date of the revolutionary left in Iran during the 1970s. In this compelling account, he shows how radical ideology in Iran was informed by a global Marxist-Leninist revolutionary ethos. Call to Arms exhibits the sheer talent readers have come to expect from Rahnema - careful assessment of evidence, meticulous archival research, and the examination of a whole host of previously untapped sources. A masterwork, a must-read!' -- Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University 'Rahnema has done the staggeringly difficult task of offering us a meticulously researched history of the life and times of the Fada'is in late-Pahlavi Iran.' -- Roham Alvandi, Associate Professor of International History, London School of Economics and Political Science 'Delivers like a ray of hope... This book is an act of redemption, not just of the Iranian Marxist revolutionaries but of the spirit of the age that demanded armed uprising against tyranny.' -- Hamid Dabashi, Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature, Columbia University 'Call to Arms is a significant study of Iran's militant left in the 1960s and 1970s. By exploring a broad range of primary and secondary source material it closely examines the formation and operational dynamics of Iran's radical opposition during the Cold War.' -- Ali Gheissari, Professor of History, University of San Diego 'Meticulous and riveting, this book works like a time-tunnel, taking us back to experience first-hand the dramatic heroics and painful tragedy of radical political opposition in 1960s-1970s Iran.' * Afshin Matin-Asgari, author of Both Eastern and Western: An Intellectual History of Iranian Modernity *