Khosrow Shakeri Zand finished his early education at Alborz High School in Tehran in 1956.
He then decided to move to California and study at the San Francisco State University where he obtained his Bachelor of Arts in Economics in 1961.
He continued his education at Indiana University at Bloomington and received his Master's degree in the same field in 1964.
He then moved to Paris, France in 1973 and completed his PhD in History at Sorbonne in 1980.
Khosrow Shakeri Zand finished his early education at Alborz High School in Tehran in 1956.
He then decided to move to California and study at the San Francisco State University where he obtained his Bachelor of Arts in Economics in 1961.
He continued his education at Indiana University at Bloomington and received his Master's degree in the same field in 1964.
He then moved to Paris, France in 1973 and completed his PhD in History at Sorbonne in 1980.
(This study focuses on Iranian tales as a medium for the t...)
This study focuses on Iranian tales as a medium for the transmission of mode of thought, behaviour, and social values in the process of socialization, and in the social reproduction of the superstructure. Comparisons with Turkey, China and Arab countries isolate a complex of motifs that occur only in Iranian tales, and then treat the relation of these pertinent motifs with Iran's sociohistorical reality. The historical development of Chess, one of the oldest games popular among Iranians, and its impact on their socialization process is also discussed. The inquiry concludes by comparing the historical process of social rise and the social ambitions of the Iranian political elite on the basis of the games and tales they are brought up with.
https://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Politics-Reproductive-Cycle-Childrens/dp/0773492283/?tag=2022091-20
1993
(The story of the Jangalis, noncommunist revolutionaries w...)
The story of the Jangalis, noncommunist revolutionaries who battled tsarist and British occupation forces in their homeland between 1915 and 1921, is critical to an understanding of twentieth-century Iran. Yet their struggle, commanded by the legendary Kuchek Khan, has been neglected, often deliberately falsified. The Pahlavi regime imposed a curtain of silence, Soviet historians attacked the movement's noncommunist leaders, and the British generally have accepted the Soviet interpretation. Now Cosroe Chaqueri brings fresh evidence, based on recently available documents from secret Soviet archives, that sheds dramatic new light on a brief but decisive moment in modern Iranian history. In reconstructing the record of the guerrilla movement that, with Soviet Russia's help, led to the establishment of the "first Soviet Socialist Republic" in the East, Chaqueri discredits the false versions of that episode and examines the internal and neocolonial external forces that precipitated its downfall. He blames foreign intervention but also locates the roots of Iran's failure to achieve independence in the socioeconomic and mental structures that have controlled the actions of Iranian leaders from ancient times until today's neo-Islamic regime.
https://www.amazon.com/Soviet-Socialist-Republic-Iran-1920-1921/dp/0822937921/?tag=2022091-20
1995
https://www.amazon.com/Armenians-Iran-Paradoxical-Monographs-1998-08-01/dp/B01A1MTUBG/?tag=2022091-20
1998
https://www.amazon.com/Origins-Social-Democracy-Modern-Iran/dp/0295980850/?tag=2022091-20
2001
https://www.amazon.com/Left-Iran-1905-1940-Revolutionary-2010-05-27/dp/B01MU69MH2/?tag=2022091-20
2011
(Based on many original documents, this book surveys Irani...)
Based on many original documents, this book surveys Iranian political history from 1941 through 1957, focusing on the Tudeh Party: the only substantial left-wing organization in Iran during this period. Topics include the party’s relationship with the labor movement in Iran; its place in the mass movement demanding the nationalization of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company; its attitudes towards the country’s various governments; its relationship with the Soviet Union; and, in particular, its dealing with Moscow’s attempt to establish a pro-Soviet autonomous government in Iranian Azerbaijan in 1945. As it discusses the various blunders and failures made by the party over the years, this history considers how close the Tudeh Party came to being destroyed following the muses on the Anglo-American coup d’état against Mosaddeq’s government in 1953.
https://www.amazon.com/Left-Iran-1941-1957-Cosroe-Chaqueri/dp/0850366569/?tag=2022091-20
2011
(Analyses the history of left-wing politics in Iran and it...)
Analyses the history of left-wing politics in Iran and its Russo-Caucasian origins during the Persian Constitutional Revolution. The book is also a history of the formative years of the socialist movement in Iran between the first Russian revolution of 1905 and the suppression of the Iranian constitutional regime by Tsarist forces in 1911.
https://www.amazon.com/Russo-Caucasian-Origins-Iranian-Left-Democracy/dp/0700714073/?tag=2022091-20
activist editor historian researcher writer scholars
Khosrow Shakeri Zand was born on July 3, 1938 in Tehran, Iran. He was the second child from a middle-class family of six children. His father, Mostafa Shakeri, was the first Persian Rug exporter to Europe and his mother, Zina (Djamshidi) Shakeri, was one of the first women to have higher education, and was a school teacher.
Khosrow Shakeri Zand finished his early education at Alborz High School in Tehran in 1956. He then decided to move to California and study at the San Francisco State University where he obtained his Bachelor of Arts in Economics in 1961. He continued his education at Indiana University at Bloomington and received his Master's degree in the same field in 1964.
After that Shakeri took a course on the economic situation in the Soviet Union at the London School of Economics, and in 1964 moved to Europe permanently. He then moved to Paris, France in 1973 and completed his PhD in History at Sorbonne in 1980.
Khosrow Shakeri Zand began his career as a general editor at Mazdak Publications in Florence, Italy, in 1969-1978. Later he began his academic career in 1977-1980, teaching modern Iranian history at the University of Paris III, Sorbonne Nouvelle.
Shakeri then became a lecturer in 1979-1980 in Tehran, teaching labour history at the Faculty of Economics, Tehran University. From 1982 to 1985 he taught at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France as a lecturer and associate professor of history. He returned to this institution in 1998 and worked there until his retirement.
In the meantime, Shakeri spent the academic year 1986-1987 at UCLA as a visiting associate professor of history and visiting scholar at Center for Near Eastern Studies. He then moved to Washington D.C., where he spent the academic year 1987-1988 at the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Between 1988 and 1991 he was affiliated with Harvard University's Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
In 1991 he moved to Chicago, where he was first a visiting scholar at Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago, and then a visiting associate professor of history at DePaul University. In 1992 he returned to Harvard 's Center for Middle Eastern Studies as senior research fellow till 1994, and from 1994 to 1996 he held the position of an assistant editor at Center for Iranian Studies, Columbia University in New York City. Since 1996 Shakeri had been a senior research fellow at Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University.
In addition, Shakeri published a series of historical papers on Iran's 20th-century history. Twenty three volumes of this series are in Persian and ten of them are in European languages. Since he was fluent in English, French, German, Persian and Russian, he was able to translate many classical works into Persian. His publications included "The Russo-Caucasian Origins of the Iranian Left. Social Democracy Modern Iran", "Armenians of Iran: The Paradoxical Role of a Minority in a Dominant Culture", "The Soviet Socialist Republic of Iran, 1920-1921: Birth of the Trauma" and "Beginning Politics: The Reproductive Cycle of Children’s Tales and Games in Iran".
Besides, Shakeri was an editor, translator, and contributor to "Documentary History of the Workers’, Social Democratic, and Communist Movement in Iran", a ten-volume work published variously in English, French, and German. He was also an assistant editor of "Encyclopaedia Iranica" and a contributor of articles and reviews to periodicals, including "Central Asian Survey", "Armenian Review", and "Iranian Studies".
Khosrow Shakeri Zand died from complications from a stroke on June 30, 2015 in a hospital in Paris, France.
Khosrow Shakeri Zand was a prominent Iranian historian and progressive intellectual, best known for a series of historical documents on Iran’s 20th century, twenty three volumes in Persian and ten in European languages. Among his noted works were "Beginning Politics in the Reproductive Cycle of Children's Tales and Games in Iran", "Origins of Social Democracy in Modern Iran" and "The Armenians of Iran: The Paradoxical Role of a Minority in a Dominant Culture, Articles and Documents".
Besides, between 1991 and 1993 Shakeri received grants from the United States Institute of Peace.
(The story of the Jangalis, noncommunist revolutionaries w...)
1995(This study focuses on Iranian tales as a medium for the t...)
1993(Based on many original documents, this book surveys Irani...)
2011(Analyses the history of left-wing politics in Iran and it...)
Shakeri Zand had socialist views. During the whole of his life, he strived to educate young people about the history and politics of Iran. He was diligent in his work aiming at establishing democracy and Human Rights in Iran.
Besides, Shakeri’s non-academic political and intellectual activities included playing an instrumental role in the Confederation Iranian Student movement which heavily influenced the anti-shah struggle of the 1960s and 1970s. Shakeri was also an avid advocate of the independent left movement in Iran and a consistent critic of Stalinism and Soviet policy toward Iran. In this context, he considered himself a left of centre follower of Dr. Muhammad Musaddeq and his brand of Iranian patriotism.
Quotations:
"My primary inspiration to write what I have written thus far has been the comprehension of issues others have neglected and the reasons why they have neglected them."
"Nothing I have written over the years has been published before a long period of intellectual fermentation."
During his student years, from 1960-1970's, Khosrow became an active member of the Human Rights Movement of Iran. He was also national secretary for international affairs in 1965 and for publications in 1968 of the National Union of Iranian Students.
Khosrow Shakeri Zand was fluent in English, French, German, Persian and Russian.
