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That day, now known as Black Friday, soldiers fired on a large demonstration, killing two or three hundred people. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 Book Review 🏷️ History

Simplified: On Black Friday soldiers fired on a large demonstration killing two or three hundred people

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Rebellion crescendoed throughout 1978, prompting the Shah to institute martial law in twelve cities on September 8th. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 Book Review 🏷️ History

Simplified: Rebellion crescendoed throughout 1978 prompting the Shah to institute martial law in twelve cities on September 8th

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“There is no other head of state with whom I feel on friendlier terms,” Carter said. 0.950

👤 Jimmy Carter 📋 Book Review

Simplified: Carter said there is no other head of state with whom he feels on friendlier terms

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Khomeini, meeting with state-radio employees, insisted that there was “no difference between music and opium” and demanded that they “eliminate music completely” 0.950

👤 The author 📋 Book Review 🏷️ Politics , Religion

Simplified: Khomeini insisted there was no difference between music and opium and demanded they eliminate music completely when meeting with state-radio employees...

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Universities were closed, for years. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 Book Review 🏷️ Education

Simplified: Universities were closed for years.

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Khomeini sought to replace the monarchy with a religious state ruled by an Islamic jurist. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 Book Review 🏷️ Politics , Religion

Simplified: Khomeini sought to replace the monarchy with a religious state ruled by an Islamic jurist.

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The causes were likely natural, Anderson suggests, but Iranians blamed SAVAK. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 Book Review

Simplified: The causes of Mostafa's death were likely natural but Iranians blamed SAVAK

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His relevance had been waning until October, 1977, when his son Mostafa suddenly died. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 Book Review

Simplified: Khomeini's relevance had been waning until October 1977 when his son Mostafa suddenly died

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He was a scholar of Islamic law in his late seventies who hadn’t set foot in Iran for nearly fifteen years. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 Book Review

Simplified: Khomeini was a scholar of Islamic law in his late seventies who hadn’t set foot in Iran for nearly fifteen years

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Would it be O.K. to kill him? 0.950

👤 The author 📋 Book Review

Simplified: Saddam asked if it would be OK to kill Khomeini

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“This mullah, Khomeini, is causing problems for you, and for me, and for all of us,” Saddam reportedly said. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 Book Review

Simplified: Saddam reportedly said Khomeini is causing problems for the Shah and for him and for all of us

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If it hadn’t been Etalaat’s editorial, some other jostle would have released that stored political energy. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Book Review

Simplified: If it hadn’t been Etalaat’s editorial some other jostle would have released that stored political energy

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The fact that the Revolution was unexpected—even by the revolutionaries themselves—doesn’t mean it was contingent. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Book Review

Simplified: The fact that the Revolution was unexpected doesn’t mean it was contingent

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Rebellion spread more through graffiti, chants, and songs than through top-down orders. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Book Review 🏷️ Revolution

Simplified: Rebellion spread through graffiti chants and songs more than top-down orders.

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Even being near a protest could mean prison. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Book Review

Simplified: Being near a protest could mean prison

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Revolutions are unsettling affairs, Kurzman, the sociologist, notes. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Book Review

Simplified: Revolutions are unsettling affairs Kurzman the sociologist notes

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People don’t know how to act, so they take cues from their neighbors or react to their opponents. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Book Review

Simplified: People don’t know how to act so they take cues from their neighbors or react to their opponents

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In Russia, the Bolshevik Revolution had been preceded by two smaller revolutions. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Book Review 🏷️ History , Politics

Simplified: The Bolshevik Revolution had been preceded by two smaller revolutions in Russia

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One of the best books on the topic, “The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran” (2004), by the sociologist Charles Kurzman, considers various explanations but rejects them all in favor of an “anti-explanatio... 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Book Review 🏷️ History , Sociology

Simplified: The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran 2004 by Charles Kurzman considers various explanations but rejects them all in favor of an anti-explanation

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In “War and Peace” (1869), Leo Tolstoy dismissed the great-man theory of the Napoleonic Wars. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Book Review 🏷️ History , Literature

Simplified: Leo Tolstoy dismissed the great-man theory of the Napoleonic Wars in War and Peace 1869

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