White Revolution

The topic White Revolution is discussed in the following articles:

reign of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi

  • TITLE: Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi (shah of Iran)
    The shah reversed Mosaddeq’s nationalization. With U.S. assistance he then proceeded to carry out a national development program, called the White Revolution, that included construction of an expanded road, rail, and air network, a number of dam and irrigation projects, the eradication of diseases such as malaria, the encouragement and support of industrial growth, and land reform. He also...

significance in Iranian history

  • TITLE: Iran
    SECTION: The White Revolution
    The period 1960–63 marked a turning point in the development of the Iranian state. Industrial expansion was promoted by the Pahlavi regime, while political parties that resisted the shah’s absolute consolidation of power were silenced and pushed to the margins. In 1961 the shah dissolved the 20th Majles and cleared the way for the land reform law of 1962. Under this program, the landed...
  • TITLE: Tehrān (Iran)
    SECTION: Tehrān during the reign of Mohammad Reza Shah (1941–79)
    Land reform was the issue at the heart of the White Revolution (1963). The shah’s series of wide-ranging reforms—termed “white” for their implementation without bloodshed—redistributed agricultural land from large feudal landowners to sharecropping farmers and nationalized forests and pastures; the White Revolution also gave women new rights, including the right to vote....