Video Title: (Cultural Revolution In Iran Soroush And Habibi)
Video Duration: 6:21
From: Cistudents
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the cultural revolution 1980-1987 in persian: انقلاب فرهنگی was a period following the 1979 islamic revolution in iran where the academia of iran was purged of western and non-islamic influences to bring it in line with shia islam.1clarification needed the official name used by the islamic republic is "cultural revolution." iran's cultural revolution was a copy and paste of mao's coltural revolution in china 1966-1976. the great proletarian cultural revolution or simply the cultural revolution was a violent m movement that resulted in social, political, and economic upheaval in the people's republic of china starting in 1966 and ending officially with mao's death in 1976. it resulted in nation-wide chaos and economic disarray and stagnation. directed by the cultural revolutionary headquarters and later by the supreme cultural revolution council, the revolution initially closed universities for three years 1980-1983 and after reopening banned many books and purged thousands of students and lecturers from the schools. the cultural revolution involved a certain amount of violence in taking over the university campuses since higher education in iran at the time was dominated by leftists forces opposed to ayatollah khomeini's vision of theocracy, and they unsuccessfully resisted khomeiniist control at many universities. how many students or faculty were killed is not known. the process of purification of the education system of foreign influences has not been ltbgt...lt bgt
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