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No one seemed more aware of the strife swirling in Iran than Khomeini. Just two days before the Tehran street clashes, in a speech to his provincial governors, he had issued an extraordinary warning of impending "chaos." Said he: "I am worried that the Islamic Republic could be defeated by...
Though Khomeini cited no names, he was clearly alarmed by the bitter power struggle between moderate President Abolhassan Banisadr and hard-lining Ayatullah Seyyed Mohammed Beheshti, the leader of the clergy-dominated Islamic Republic Party. Behind their personal rivalry lay opposed visions of government: Beheshti and his fundamentalist allies seek...
Zimanov may miss the point of his own observation: a cultural or spiritual force that is strongest in society when people deal with death is not necessarily a dying force. Perhaps the contrary. In Central Asia, local authorities have tried to give military funerals to soldiers killed in action against...
* There are no reliable figures on religious observance in the U.S.S.R., but in their own propaganda pamphlets, printed in Arabic for distribution in Islamic countries of the Middle East, Soviet authorities claim that more than half of the country's Muslims are believers. That statistic may be an exaggeration, intended...
But it is not just force of arms that keeps the union whole. The central government has deliberately pursued a policy of relative permissiveness toward Islamic culture, which unites about 43 million Soviet citizens, nearly one-sixth of the total population. Since Lenin's time, the Kremlin has been sensitive...