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Show CHAPTER VI POST-CONDITIONS OF THE REVOLUTION Smelser (1962) argues that 'the term 'revolution' not only to challenges to the of legitimacy a frequently but also to ruling power, rapid social change of any sort" (Smelser, 1962:318). If refers a political economic, social revolution aims at the transformation of power, prestige and money from one social group.to another, the Constitutional Revolution of Iran (1906) indeed blood was a fight can of the be considered such in the revolution. bourgeois (middle-class) against the Qajar Dynasty, focusing inequity a application and The Revolution capitalists new upon unfair taxation and of justice, foreign interference customs, and the feudal ists. in the But, the, clergy, the king's trade-capitalists. among specific end, the Revolution ended with court , the new hidden agreement between bourgeois-feudalists This coalition stood groups and in a bastcally opposition to the for the and the large ownership majority of the of land people. Political The Revolution, from a political point of view, was aimed at the destruction of the, system of absolute monarchy and foreign interference. It was directed toward the rise of a system of baurgeouis parliament, |
