Social Democratic Party (Persia)

Social Democratic Party
Leader Nariman Narimanov[1]
Founder Haydar Khan Amo-oghli[2][3]
Founded 1904[2] or 1905[1]
Dissolved February 1910[1]
Succeeded by Democrat Party[2]
Headquarters Baku, Caucasus[2]
Newspaper Iran-e No[1]
Ideology

The Social Democratic Party (Persian: فرقه اجتماعیون عامیون, translit. Ferqa'ye Ejtemāʿīyūn-e ʿāmmīyūn) was a political party formed by Persian emigrants in Transcaucasia with the help of local revolutionaries, maintaining close ties to the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party and Hemmat Party.[1][2]

It was the first Iranian socialist organization.[4]

The party created its own mélange of European socialism and indigenous ideas and upheld liberalism and nationalism. It maintained some religious beliefs[1] while being critical of the conservative ulama[1] and embracing separation of church and state.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Afary, Janet (December 9, 2011) [December 15, 1998]. "EJTEMĀʿĪŪN-E ʿĀMMĪŪN (Mojāhed), FERQA-YE". In Yarshater, Ehsan. Encyclopædia Iranica. Fasc. 3. VIII. New York City: Bibliotheca Persica Press. pp. 286–288. Retrieved September 12, 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Abrahamian, Ervand (1982). Iran Between Two Revolutions. Princeton University Press. pp. 76–77, 104. ISBN 0-691-10134-5.
  3. 1 2 Ettehadieh, Mansoureh (October 28, 2011) [December 15, 1992]. "CONSTITUTIONAL REVOLUTION v. Political parties of the constitutional period". In Yarshater, Ehsan. Encyclopædia Iranica. Fasc. 2. VI. New York City: Bibliotheca Persica Press. pp. 199–202. Retrieved September 12, 2016.
  4. Cronin, Stephanie (2013). Reformers and Revolutionaries in Modern Iran: New Perspectives on the Iranian Left. Routledge/BIPS Persian Studies Series. Routledge. p. 252. ISBN 1134328907.
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