The Socioeconomic Effects of The Land Reform in Iran (1961-1981)

This study examines the nature of the land reform program in Iran. Following the 1953 coup d'etat in Iran and preceding an economic crisis in the late 1950s, the U.S. government launched a land reform program in Iran. The land reform mainly had two aims--one political, one economic; the economic had priority. At the time of ratification of the land reform bill, the two leading countries, i.e., England and the United States, had constituted the main political and economic influence in Iran. England as the traditional supporter of the Iranian landlords, opposed the plan, because execution of such a program meant strengthening the capitalist faction of the regime that was mainly pro-American and weakening the landlord faction that was the British base in Iran. The contradiction between the U.S. and England had rooted in the period of nationalization of the oil industry in Iran in 1951. Rivalry between the two powers (U.S. and England) finally ended in favor of the U.S. and its land reform program.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Sociology

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Alamdari, Kazem

• Sociology, General

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8302789

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/70990