The Peasant Uprising of Mukriyan 1952-1953: Consulate Documents, Diplomatic Correspondence, and the Press Coverage is the compendium volume of Amir Hassanpour's seminal book on The Peasant Uprising of Mukriyan 1952-1953 ( ¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿ 1331-3321¿) (Toronto: Iran Namag, 2021). Additional documents held at Amir Hassanpour Fonds at the University of Toronto Archives related to his extensive research on the historiography of the Mukriyan peasant uprising are included in this volume. This volume includes the Persian translation of Amir Hassanpour's article in Kurdish on the Peasant Movement of 1952-53 (first published in 2017 in Derwaze, Kurdish journal of social sciences and humanities); the Persian translation of 54 declassified documents from the American Consulate in Tabriz and the American Embassy in Tehran; Persian translations of 8 diplomatic correspondences related to the United States Department of State; translations of 18 news reports and articles from historical newspapers, including the New York Times, New Times, and Trud. In some sections original copies of documents are also included. Moreover, the volume includes the transcribed correspondence between Amir Hasanpour and Massoud Muhammad (prominent Iraqi Kurdish intellectual and scholar, 1919-2002) on the issue of feudalism and class formation in Kurdistan, along with 20 original handwritten letters to and from him, and finally, 12 other historical documents related to the Mukriyan peasant movement. These two volumes provide the historical documents as well theoretical, historical, and political analysis of this understudied movement, a crucial event in the modern history of Iran.
Professor Amir Hassanpour (1943-2017) was a prominent Kurdish-Iranian Marxist Linguist and Professor Emeritus of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto (UofT), where he taught from 1999 to 2009. His major research areas were Kurdish socio-linguistics, Kurdish history and nationalism, as well as peasant and social movements in the Middle East and Kurdistan. He was an influential intellectual and revolutionary thinker who advocated for Kurdish Studies and the rights of national minorities for self-determination. His wide-ranging research has left significant impacts in these areas.
