Reza Radmanesh

Reza Radmanesh
Member of Parliament of Iran
In office 7 March 1944 – 12 March 1946
Constituency	Lahijan
Personal details
Born	1905[1] or 1906[2] Lahijan, Sublime State of Persia[2]
Died	1983 (aged 77–78)[1] Leipzig, East Germany
Nationality	Iranian
Political party	Tudeh Party of Iran
Other political affiliations	Socialist Party (1920s)
Relatives	Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi (cousin)[3]
Alma mater	University of Paris[2]

Reza Radmanesh (Persian: رضا رادمنش; 1905/06–1983) was an Iranian physicist, communist politician and general secretary of the Tudeh Party of Iran. According to Abbas Milani, he was "one of the most prominent members of the Iranian communist movement".^[3]

Early life and education

Radmanesh was born into a Gilak landed upper-class family. He helped the local Jangalis as a teenager; and joined the Socialist Party while he studied at Dar ul-Funun. He went to France to study physics, and met Taghi Arani, before he returned to Iran as a junior member of The Fifty-Three. He was sentenced to five years of imprisonment.^[4]

Career

Radmanesh was a leading and dominating personality in the Tudeh Party of Iran, serving as a member of the party's central committee, head of its youth wing and its parliamentary leader before taking office as the first Secretary in 1948.^[5]

References

1. Maziar, Behrooz (2000). Rebels With A Cause: The Failure of the Left in Iran. I.B.Tauris. p. 38. ISBN 1860646301.
2. Abrahamian, Ervand (1982). Iran Between Two Revolutions. Princeton University Press. Table 3: Social and Political Background of the "Fifty-three", pp. 158–159. ISBN 0-691-10134-5.
3. Milani, Abbas (2008). Eminent Persians: the men and women who made modern Iran, 1941-1979. Vol. 1. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press. p. 165. ISBN 978-0815609070.
4. Abrahamian, Ervand (1982). Iran Between Two Revolutions. Princeton University Press. p. 288. ISBN 0-691-10134-5.
5. Abrahamian, Ervand (1982). Iran Between Two Revolutions. Princeton University Press. p. 294, 306, 309, 313. ISBN 0-691-10134-5.

Party political offices
Preceded by Mohammad Bahrami	First Secretary of the Tudeh Party of Iran 1948–1969 Served alongside: Mohammad Bahrami (1949–1953) as Acting First-Secretary	Succeeded by Iraj Eskandari
Preceded by Noureddin Alamouti
Preceded by Iraj Eskandari as General-Secretaries
New title	Head of Tudeh fraction 1944–1946	Vacant
	Head of Tudeh Youth Organization 1943–1947	Succeeded by Nader Sharmini