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Mardom (newspaper)

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Mardom
TypeWeekly
PublisherTudeh Party
Founded1 February 1942
Political alignmentCommunist
LanguagePersian
Ceased publication1980
HeadquartersTehran
CountryIran
Sister newspapers
OCLC number269184338
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Mardom (Persian: مردم, lit.'People') was the official newspaper of the Tudeh Party of Iran. It was published on a weekly basis.[1]

History and profile[edit]

Mardom began circulation on 1 February 1942.[2] It was started to contribute to the Tudeh party's achievement of political power.[3] During World War II the paper was part of the campaign against the Axis powers.[4] The paper was one of the most read publications in Iran in the early 1950s.[1]

Staff[edit]

During its early years, Reza Radmanesh and Khalil Maleki served as its editors.[5] Mostafa Fateh also co-edited the newspaper for some time.[5]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b William G. Dildine (1951). "Iran Today". Pakistan Horizon. 4 (1): 26. JSTOR 41392472.
  2. ^ Mohammad Gholi Majd (2012), August 1941: The Anglo-Russian Occupation of Iran and Change of Shahs, University Press of America, p. 397, ISBN 978-0-7618-5940-6
  3. ^ Ali Massoud Ansari (1998). Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and the myth of imperial authority (PhD thesis). SOAS University of London. p. 108. doi:10.25501/SOAS.00028497.
  4. ^ M. Ali Geranmayeh (1992). Iranian resistance to Soviet pressure: Irano-Soviet relations, 1941-1947 (PhD thesis). University of London. p. 190.
  5. ^ a b Ervand Abrahamian (1982). Iran Between Two Revolutions. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. pp. 188, 306. ISBN 0-691-10134-5.