Historical setting
book chapter 1989 Bakhash, Shaul & Library Of Congress. Federal Research Division

IranMiddle East > Middle East
This work is a detailed study of Iran's history from about the middle of the second millennium B.C. to 1985 A.D. The historical data ranges from Iran's first empire, the Achaemenid Empire in the sixth century B. C through the reign of the shahs Reza ...

The economy
book chapter 1989 MacPherson,Angus & Library Of Congress. Federal Research Division

IranMiddle East > Middle East
In this document MacPherson presents a detailed study of Iran's economy from the 1920s to about 1988. The author notes that while politics and ideology have undergone many changes brought about by each successive regime in Iran, there has been relati...

Iran
book chapter 1989 Metz, Helen Chapin & Library of Congress. Federal Research Division

IranMiddle East > Middle East
This study is an attempt to treat in a concise and objective manner the dominant social, political, economic, and military aspects of contemporary (i.e., up to 1987) Iranian society. Sources of information included scholarly journals and monographs, ...

The society and its environment
book chapter 1989 Hooglund, Eric J. & Library Of Congress. Federal Research Division

IranMiddle East > Middle East
This is a succinct analysis of Iranian society up to and following the Revolution of 1979. Although a wide variety of ethnographic topics are discussed in the text, major emphasis is on the population, the environment, language, culture history, ethn...

Government and politics
book chapter 1989 Hooglund, Eric J. & Library Of Congress. Federal Research Division

IranMiddle East > Middle East
Hoogland writes about the 1980s post-revolution Iranian politics. He examines the constitutional framework, political institutions, and political events of that period. He discusses the power and role of the supreme authority of the FAQIH, the Presid...

National security
book chapter 1989 Kechichian, Joseph A. et al.

IranMiddle East > Middle East
This is a thorough discussion of the Iranian military and law enforcement agencies, focusing on the post-Revolution period and including the Iran-Iraq War. The discussion includes foreign and internal political struggles and events....

Vietnam
book chapter 1989 Cima, Ronald J. & Library of Congress. Federal Research Division

VietnameseAsia > Southeast Asia
Compiled by the author in conjunction with members of the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress, this study presents a broad overview of Vietnamese ethnography from its early history (ca. 2879 B.C.) to approximately 1989, with a strong...

Historical setting
essay 1989 LePoer, Barbara Leitch & Library Of Congress. Federal Research Division

VietnameseAsia > Southeast Asia
This chapter outlines the long history of Vietnamese people from ancient times, through centuries of resistance against Chinese domination and later on French colonialism, to the emergence of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in 1976....

The society and its environment
essay 1989 Shinn, Rinn-Sup & Library Of Congress. Federal Research Division

VietnameseAsia > Southeast Asia
This doucment is an outline of Veitnamese soceity and its environment from an ancient times to 1987....

The economy
essay 1989 Cosslett, Tuyet L. et al.

VietnameseAsia > Southeast Asia
An overview of Vietnamese economy from the unification of North and South Veitnam in 1975 to the reforms undertaken by the ruling Vietnamese Communist Party in 1987....

National security
essay 1989 Pike, Douglas Eugene & Library Of Congress. Federal Research Division

VietnameseAsia > Southeast Asia
This article outlines the history of Vietnamese military institutions with particular emphasis on the Peoples' Army of Vietnam (PAVN) which, established in 1930s by a small group of nationalists, united the country in 1976....

Russia
book chapter 1996 Curtis, Glenn E. (Glenn Eldon) & Library of Congress. Federal Research Division

RussiansEurope > Eastern Europe
This study of Russia’s political, economic, social, and national security systems and institutions focuses on the immediate lead-up and aftermath to the breakup of the Soviet Union in order to better understand the difficulties faced by its new polit...