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xiii Acknowledgments This book would not have been possible without the support of many individuals throughout my long and painstaking research. I thank Ali Akbar Mahdi, Warren Magnusson, Marilyn Gates, and Murray Smith for various ideas that surface in parts of this book. I also thank the anonymous reviewers of the manuscript for their suggestions. Special thanks go to Cosroe Chaqueri (K. Shakeri), the editor of Edition Mazdak, for providing rare documents and communicating his knowledge about the history of the Iranian Left. I also acknowledge Mastureh Ahmadzadeh, Mehdi Fatapour, Abbas Hashemi, Behzad Karimi, Parviz Navidi, Farrokh Negahdar, Mashallah Razmi, Mariam Satwat, and other (former ) activists who agreed to answer my questions about different aspects of the history of Fadaiyan. I am also grateful to the late Ahmad Vahabzadeh, Ali Reza Feizabadi, Babak Amir Khosravi, Maziar Behrooz, and Nader Naji, who sent me copies of documents pertaining to the early years of Fadaiyan. I thank Jasper Benjamin Goldman and Hossein Fazeli, who worked as research assistants, respectively, at Harvard University’s Widener Library and Columbia University Libraries, as well as Natalie Gidora and Ehsan Faizabadi for help with the appendixes. Likewise, my gratitude goes to the University of Victoria Library Inter-Library Loans Division for their efforts in obtaining sources. Ehsan Faizabadi provided assistance with the photos. Last but not least, I acknowledge and thank Karin Renee O’Leary, who provided meticulous editorial assistance to the final draft of the manuscript. I acknowledge the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC) Postdoctoral Fellowship (2001–3). I also thank the Office of Vice-President Research and the Dean of Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Victoria, as well as the late Ellen Gee, chair of the Department of Sociology xiv | Acknowledgments and Anthropology at Simon Fraser University, for providing a travel grant to visit archives of the Iranian Left in Paris in 2001. I thank Mary Selden Evans, executive editor, and Mehrzad Boroujerdi, series editor, at Syracuse University Press for their support and encouragement. Parts of chapter 6 were formerly published in the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (34 [1], April 2007) and Iranian Studies (40 [3], June 2007). Finally, this book materialized through the loving support of my longtime companion, Giti, and our son, Emile, who always encouraged me through my years of academic vagrancy and underemployment. My words fall short in expressing my love and gratitude toward them. ...

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