One of the institutions established in time of Pahlavi II to achieve the economic development was the Economic Council held on Mondays in front of the Pahlavi King with the presence of the government's economic team. The current article focuses on the "Issue of Iran's Economic Development" and examines the minutes of the Economic Council. This study, based on Rosen Stein Roden's "balanced economic growth theory", has analyzed the issues raised in the meeting minutes in order to find the answer to this question on what effect the Economic Council had on Iran's economic development process. The memories of agents present in the meetings for two decades have also been used as another source. Moreover, the report of evaluations of various departments of the Program and Budget Organization regarding construction plans has been considered and used to confirm the analysis. The findings of the research clarify that due to the lack of coherence and the lack of a general view in the economic decisions, heterogeneity in dealing with different economic sectors and the how of making decisions in this council, its results could not lead to a balanced and sustainable development of Iran.
تاریخ نامه ایران بعد از اسلام (2251757X)(33)pp. 57-80
The historiography of the Qajar period, under the influence of the discourse of modernity and its requirements, went through a historical experience. The result of this development was the creation of boundaries between the two historical perspectives of tradition and modern as two distinct paradigms. Based on this discursive development, a double reading of the Safavid issue also took place. In the first narrative of lived experiences, ideological requirements and historical perspectives aligned with the traditional historiographical paradigm, the memory of the Safavids was narrated with a kind of pride, and of course as a source of legitimacy with a proud and epic tone. On the opposite point and from the perspective of critical and modernist historians aligned with the modern discourse, all those previous characteristics and criteria were reversed from a new perspective, the position of the Safavids was reduced to a burdensome, decadent and anti-modern position. Based on these two approaches, the problem of this research is how did the rise and fall of the Safavids occur in these two historiographical perspectives? This question will be answered in an analytical way and based on the content criticism of the narratives of historians of the Qajar period. The hypothesis of this article is that in proportion to the transition from tradition discourse to modernity and the beginning of the gradual dominance of modern discourse in this period, the position of the Safavids also fell from a legitimizing, lofty and proud position to a low position and became an important pillar in the degeneration of the historians of this period. The course was converted.
At the beginning of Qajar era (1210-1344), the religious authorities revealed the role of religion in the development of society more salient than the past and stabilized their authority as well. In Naseri era (1245-1312), the centers of illuminated Iranian out of Iran were developed. They endeavored to provide the ground for the vigilantism of Iranians through the propagation of data related to the development of Europe and Othmani. Akhtar newspaper developed by some of the Iranian reformists in Istanbul, is considered as a sample of these centers within the framework of Islamic unity aiming for the prevention of violation by the Europeans and the Russians to the Islamic lands in order to present the modern thoughts via the religious beliefs. The present research, taking advantage of the descriptive-analytical method as well as the library sources, is going to answer the question on the advantages of Islamic unity considered by this paper as well as the way of illustration of its obstacles
تاریخ نامه ایران بعد از اسلام (2251757X)(22)pp. 53-78
The Soviet Red Army, in August 1941 in order to access to the Alliance; logistic line and under the pretext of the presence of German consultants in Iran, occupied Iran. During the presence of this Army in the north and northwestern plateaus of Iran, some movements emerged in Azerbaijan and Kurdistan which created a crisis for central government. The purpose of this study is to investigate the Soviet role in eccentric movements in Kurdistan from 1941 to 1946. This research has done on the basis of descriptive-analytical method and relying on primary resources such as unpublished documents and library resources. The findings of this research show that the Soviet Union goal of igniting ethnic trends in Kurdish regions of Iran was to fulfill its own political and economic interests so that it could establish a base in Iran for its own infiltration in Iran in Post-world war II era. Due to the Pahlavi policies to eradicate language, history and culture of Kurds and their ethnicity within ethnic identity and national identity, and Soviet support for the Kurds caused them to diverge from the central government and they considered the Kurdish movements of Soviet Army not as an occupation force but a liberating one.
تاریخ نامه ایران بعد از اسلام (2251757X)(21)pp. 117-142
Iranians have frequently faced famine and food crises throughout history. There were many factors affecting the Persian Famine of 1917- 1919, which can be generally divided into natural and human (internal and external) factors. The intentions of conduct of the landowners and government officials are of great importance to consider among the internal human factors, which played a key role in the mentioned food crisis during 1917- 1919 (mostly, shortage of bread and grain according to the historical records). These strata had a significant impact on the famine and other socioeconomic problems. Adopting an analytical-descriptive methodological approach,the goal of this research is to explain one of the effective factors in the public food (grain) crisis and its consequences. Using a descriptive-analytical method, this research aims to determine the effects of the perfermance of the owners and the authorities in the food crisis in 1917-1918. Moreover, it seeks to investigte the concequences of their performance.
تاریخ نامه ایران بعد از اسلام (2251757X)(13)pp. 81-110
One of the most important industries during the Qajar period was shawl industry. In addition to the usage of the Iranian silk and wool in producing various kinds of silk carpets and fabrics, they were used in weaving shawls. After the establishment of the Qajar government and with the support of the government officials, shawl weaving became an important and valuable industry. Kerman, Mashhad and Kashan gradually became the centers for shawl weaving and played major roles in the growth and development of this industry. Contemporary with the development of the shawl industry in Iran, this good got economical and commercial importance besides its political and social significance. In fact, this issue could be a subject of an independent research. This study tried to examine the evolution of the shawl industry implementing a descriptive-analytical approach, relying on library resources and using the remaining Qajar consular documents. Two main issues were addressed in this study: firstly, what were the characteristics and the usage of the shawls in Qajar period, in Iran? Secondly, how was the quality of the shawl trade in this period? Research showed that shawls had diverse usage and functions in Iran. Due to the development of the shawl industry in Iran, its trade turned to an agenda in the Qajar government and they began to export it.
