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Carter had campaigned on human rights which he described as the soul of our foreign policy
Andrew Scott Cooper describes a telephone call that Saddam Hussein placed to the Shah in August 1978 in The Fall of Heaven
Hegel was living in Jena putting final touches on his masterwork Phenomenology of Spirit Napoleon arrived with his troops in 1806
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi staged an expensive celebration to honor twenty-five hundred years of monarchy in Iran in 1971
Ronald Reagan advised to shoot the first man in front
The Shah would die in 1980
The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran 2004 by Charles Kurzman considers various explanations but rejects them all in favor of an anti-explanation
Ferguson is an outlier among academics
Mao Zedong described China as dry tinder awaiting a spark before his own revolution prevailed
The Bolshevik Revolution had been preceded by two smaller revolutions in Russia
Hegel wrote I saw the Emperor this world-soul
Wars and revolutions happen for reasons rooted in economics ideology geography and climate
Any sense that history trends in a general direction is confounded by a large prosperous country becoming a hard-line semi-theocracy
Iran’s revolution drew in two million people a greater proportion of the population than any previous twentieth-century revolution saw
Asadollah Alam had a firm grasp on popular grievances and the need to address them Anderson notes
Farah relied on his wife Farah for advice about the situation
Farah reportedly asked who is this Khomeini
The Shah had cancer
The rest will fall into line
Leo Tolstoy dismissed the great-man theory of the Napoleonic Wars in War and Peace 1869