Land Reforms of Pahlavi II and Its Social and Economic Consequences(1340-1357 SH)

Document Type : Science - Research

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1 Associate Professor, Faculty member of the Imam Hossein University, Tehran, IRAN.

2 Assistant Professor, Faculty member of the Imam Hossein University, Tehran, IRAN.

Abstract

The present study aimed to etiology of land reform and its consequences based on social anomie approach by scrutinizing historical events and documents. To this aim, with a descriptive-analytical method, explain the social and economic consequences of land reforms. The main question is: ‘What was the nature of land reform and what its socio-economic consequences are?’ The main hypothesis is that farmers lost their social law (solidarity) and economic independence (self-sufficiency) after land reform. The results indicated that the reforms were not internal and were carried out under pressure from the government and abroad. The wandering of farmers after land reforms led to anomie, i.e., the lack of functioning norms and caused a fragmentation of society. Farmers in the socioeconomic realm were out of balance and suffered from socioeconomic mess. The liberation of a rural community from solidarity and the problem of a self-sustaining economy made farmers face many crises. Social crisis and economic poverty threw society into anomalies. Social crisis and economic poverty threw society into anomalies. As a result, self-sufficient farmers and villagers, with high correlations with the pre-land-reforms, consequently divided the land and villagers migration to the cities, were caught up in social anomie.

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Contemporary Researches on Islamic Revolution
Volume 5, Issue 15
March 2023
Pages 19-34

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