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Title: In the Name of God: The Khomeini Decade by Robin B. Wright, Brian Wright ISBN: 0-671-67235-5 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: October, 1989 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.6 (5 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: Provides recent historical backround
Comment: In light of the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, this book provides a context in which to understand the current state of affiars. It chronicles the Kohmeini decade in Iran, 1979-1989 and describes how complex the politics of the region can be. The quagmire sometimes causes the U.S. and other nations to allign with questionable parties simply because options are limited. This book describes how some of those linkages come about.

Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent chronicle
Comment: In this book, author Robin Wright covers the history of Iran from the 1979 Revolution, to Ayatollah Khomeini's death in 1989. Covering in-depth the happenings inside Iran, she covers many of the different factions within in Iran, as they jostled for power and frequently clashed. She breaks this decade down into four phases: 1979-82, the period of survival; 1983-late 1986, the period of expansion; late 1986-mid 1988, the period of retreat; and mid-1988 on, when Iran came to terms with its rivals.

This book was written in 1989, which means that the author did not have too much time in which to put the Iranian Revolution into its proper historical setting. However, that said, the author does give a wonderful understanding, at times showing the similarities between the terrors of Iran's Revolution and those of the French and Russian Revolutions.

It did not appear to me that the author was trying to present the revolution in an overtly positive light, though the terrors were not covered in any great depth. Instead, this book read like any good history of the French or Russian Revolutions, and is an excellent chronicle. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to understand what happened in Iran during this fascinating decade.

Rating: 4
Summary: Worth a look
Comment: I have to disagree with the reader from London. While this book does not go into nearly enough depth about the darker side of the Iranian revolution, it's hardly an apologia. I read it more as a primer, the first draft on a remarkably important event that is still being understood 20 years later. Consult Ms. Wright's other book, "The Last Great Revolution" as a followup.

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