Donya (magazine)

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Donya
EditorTaqi Arani
CategoriesTheoretical cultural magazine
FrequencyMonthly
Founder
First issueFebruary 1934
Final issueMay–June 1935
CountryPahlavi Iran
Based inTehran
LanguagePersian

Donya (Persian: The World) was a monthly Marxist theoretical cultural magazine that produced twelve issues between February 1934 and June 1935. It was based in Tehran, Iran.

History and profile[edit]

Donya was first published in February 1934.[1] Three Marxist Iranian intellectuals, Taqi Arani, Iraj Iskandari and Bozorg Alavi, who were part of the first cell of the newly founded Iranian Communist Party established the magazine.[2] Arani also served as the editor-in-chief of Donya.[2][3] The magazine was based in Tehran[1] and came out monthly.[4]

Its major goal was to introduce Marxism to Iranians and to provide a basis for a prospective Marxist group.[2] Donya featured articles on politics and history from a Marxist perspective.[5] It supported positivist Marxism and cultural hegemony, but avoided direct discussions of Marxism, class struggle and revolution.[6] Instead, it covered indirect discussions of cultural and philosophical views.[1] The magazine supported the following view of the transgressive thought: "Humankind has reached a stage in the evolution of civilization that it wants to conduct its society according to materialist and logical principles."[7]

Donya published a total of 12 volumes before its closure in 1935.[8] Its last issue was dated May-June.[9]

Legacy[edit]

A publication with the same name was launched by Tudeh Party[10] in 1960.[11] It billed itself as the direct successor of Donya.[11]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c Afshin Matin Asgari (2018). Both Eastern and Western: An Intellectual History of Iranian Modernity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 101. ISBN 978-1108428538.
  2. ^ a b c M. Reza Ghods (October 1990). "The Iranian Communist Movement under Reza Shah". Middle Eastern Studies. 26 (4): 508. JSTOR 4283395.
  3. ^ Hormoz Mehrdad (1980). Political orientations and the style of intergroup leadership interactions: The case of Iranian political parties (PhD thesis). Ohio State University. p. 257. ISBN 979-8-205-08664-6. ProQuest 303067167.
  4. ^ Donald Newton Wilber (2014). Iran, Past and Present: From Monarchy to Islamic Republic (9th ed.). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. p. 237. ISBN 9781400857470.
  5. ^ Faramarz S. Fatemi (1976). The U.S.S.R. in Iran the Irano-Soviet dispute and the patterns of Azerbaijan revolution, 1941-1947 (PhD thesis). New School for Social Research, NY. p. 42. ISBN 9798662167506. ProQuest 302817024.
  6. ^ Manija Nasrabadi; Afshin Matin Asgari (2018). "The Iranian student movement and the making of global 1968". In Chen Jian; et al. (eds.). The Routledge Handbook of the Global Sixties. London: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315150918. ISBN 9780367580872.
  7. ^ Arash Ghajarjazi (2022). "A Typology of Transgressive Thought in Iran". Iran Academia Journal (9): 2. doi:10.53895/iccifpe5.
  8. ^ Farid Moradi (Summer 2013). "History of book Publishing in Iran" (PDF). In Farid Moradi; et al. (eds.). Publishing in Persian language In Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Europe and United States. International Alliance of Independent Publishers. ISBN 978-2-9519747-8-4.
  9. ^ "Persian journals and periodicals". University of Chicago Library. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
  10. ^ Abdolrahim Javadzadeh (2007). Marxists into Muslims: An Iranian Irony (PhD thesis). Florida International University. p. 162. doi:10.25148/etd.FI08081527.
  11. ^ a b Siavush Randjbar-Daemi (2022). "The Tudeh Party of Iran and the land reform initiatives of the Pahlavi state, 1958–1964". Middle Eastern Studies. 58 (4): 622. doi:10.1080/00263206.2021.1976157. hdl:10023/24035. S2CID 239236185.

External links[edit]

  • Media related to Donya at Wikimedia Commons
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