Reza Radmanesh
Member of Parliament of Iran
In office
7 March 1944 – 12 March 1946
ConstituencyLahijan
Personal details
Born1905[1] or 1906[2]
Lahijan, Sublime State of Persia[2]
Died1983 (aged 77–78)[1]
Leipzig, East Germany
NationalityIranian
Political partyTudeh Party of Iran
Other political
affiliations		Socialist Party (1920s)
RelativesMohammad Ali Mojtahedi (cousin)[3]
Alma materUniversity of Paris[2]

Reza Radmanesh (Persian: رضا رادمنش; 1905/06–1983) was an Iranian physicist, communist politician and general secretary of the Tudeh Party of Iran. According to Abbas Milani, he was "one of the most prominent members of the Iranian communist movement".[3]

Early life and education

Radmanesh was born into a Gilak landed upper-class family. He helped the local Jangalis as a teenager; and joined the Socialist Party while he studied at Dar ul-Funun. He went to France to study physics, and met Taghi Arani, before he returned to Iran as a junior member of The Fifty-Three. He was sentenced to five years of imprisonment.[4]

Career

Radmanesh was a leading and dominating personality in the Tudeh Party of Iran, serving as a member of the party's central committee, head of its youth wing and its parliamentary leader before taking office as the first Secretary in 1948.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 Maziar, Behrooz (2000). Rebels With A Cause: The Failure of the Left in Iran. I.B.Tauris. p. 38. ISBN 1860646301.
  2. 1 2 3 Abrahamian, Ervand (1982). Iran Between Two Revolutions. Princeton University Press. Table 3: Social and Political Background of the "Fifty-three", pp. 158–159. ISBN 0-691-10134-5.
  3. 1 2 Milani, Abbas (2008). Eminent Persians: the men and women who made modern Iran, 1941-1979. Vol. 1. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press. p. 165. ISBN 978-0815609070.
  4. ↑ Abrahamian, Ervand (1982). Iran Between Two Revolutions. Princeton University Press. p. 288. ISBN 0-691-10134-5.
  5. ↑ Abrahamian, Ervand (1982). Iran Between Two Revolutions. Princeton University Press. p. 294, 306, 309, 313. ISBN 0-691-10134-5.
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