The Promise of Violence: Collective Memory and the Making of Revolutionaries in Iran

By Younes Saramifar

Revolutionaries in Iran choose to identify memories of the Iran-Iraq War as their 'collective' memory to mark the war era as the temporal reference in history - the time of times, or sometimes even a time beyond time. Can a sole event and its violence truly become - for some - the all-encompassing, constituting element of history and memory? This book pursues this question and follows revolutionaries in the maze of 'collective' memory to offer a temporal account of the breakdown of happenings - as well as the mending of happenings through the force of remembrance.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526179989
• ISBN13: 9781526179982
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 328 Pages