Reza Radmanesh
Reza Radmanesh | |
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Member of Parliament of Iran | |
In office 7 March 1944 – 12 March 1946 | |
Constituency | Lahijan |
Personal details | |
Born |
1905[1] or 1906[2] Lahijan, Persia[2] |
Died | 1983 (aged 77–78)[1] |
Nationality | Iranian |
Political party | Tudeh Party of Iran |
Other political affiliations | Socialist Party (1920s) |
Relatives | Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi (cousin)[3] |
Alma mater | University of Paris[2] |
Reza Radmanesh (Persian: رضا رادمنش; 1905/1906–1983) was an Iranian physicist and communist politician. According to Abbas Milani, he was "one of the most prominent members of the Iranian communist movement".[3]
Early life and education
Radmanesh was born into a Gilak landed upper-class family. He helped the local Jangalis as a teenager; and joined the Socialist Party while he studied at Dar ul-Funun. He went to France to study physics, and met Taghi Arani, before he returned to Iran as a junior member of The Fifty-Three. He was sentenced to five years of imprisonment.[4]
Career
Radmanesh was a leading and dominating personality in the Tudeh Party of Iran, serving as a member of the party's central committee, head of its youth wing and its parliamentary leader before taking office as the first Secretary in 1948.[5]
References
- 1 2 Maziar, Behrooz (2000). Rebels With A Cause: The Failure of the Left in Iran. I.B.Tauris. p. 38. ISBN 1860646301.
- 1 2 3 Abrahamian, Ervand (1982). Iran Between Two Revolutions. Princeton University Press. Table 3: Social and Political Background of the "Fifty-three", pp. 158–159. ISBN 0-691-10134-5.
- 1 2 Milani, Abbas (2008). Eminent Persians: the men and women who made modern Iran, 1941-1979. 1. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press. p. 165. ISBN 0815609078.
- ↑ Abrahamian, Ervand (1982). Iran Between Two Revolutions. Princeton University Press. p. 288. ISBN 0-691-10134-5.
- ↑ Abrahamian, Ervand (1982). Iran Between Two Revolutions. Princeton University Press. p. 294, 306, 309, 313. ISBN 0-691-10134-5.
Party political offices | ||
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Preceded by Mohammad Bahrami |
First-Secretary of the Tudeh Party of Iran 1948–1969 Served alongside: Mohammad Bahrami (1949–1953) as Acting First-Secretary |
Succeeded by Iraj Eskandari |
Preceded by Noureddin Alamouti | ||
Preceded by Iraj Eskandari as General-Secretaries | ||
New title | Head of Tudeh fraction 1944–1946 |
Vacant |
Head of Tudeh Youth Organization 1944–1947 |
Succeeded by Aliyeh Sharmini |