Ardeshir Ovanessian
Ardashir Ovanessian | |
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Member of Parliament of Iran | |
In office 7 March 1944 – 12 March 1946 | |
Constituency | Armenians (North) |
Personal details | |
Born | Ardashes Ovanessian 1905 Rasht, Qajar Iran |
Died | 1990 (aged 84–85) Yerevan, Armenian SSR |
Political party | Tudeh Party of Iran |
Other political affiliations | Communist Party of Persia |
Alma mater | KUTV |
Ardeshir Ovanessian (
Biography
He was born around 1905 in Rasht, to an Armenian family originally hailing from Salmas.[2] After completing a pharmacist apprenticeship (the profession of his father), he became involved in radical politics. He became involved in the radical Cultural Society of Rasht. Ovanessian became a cadre of the Communist Party of Persia in 1923. In 1925, he was sent to study at KUTV. Upon his return in 1926 he organized a pharmacists' trade union. For the Communist Party Ovanessian played a key role in the organizing of the party in Azerbaijan, making frequent visits to the different towns in the region.[3]
Ovanessian was eventually captured by the police, and would spend eleven years in
He was elected to the 14th
Ovanessian organized a peasant uprising in
References
- Abrahamian, Ervand. Tortured Confessions: Prisons and Public Recantations in Modern Iran. Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press, 1999. p. 34
- ISBN 978-0815623434.
Ardeshir Ovanessian born rasht.
- ^ Abrahamian, Ervand. Tortured Confessions: Prisons and Public Recantations in Modern Iran. Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press, 1999. pp. 36-37
- Abrahamian, Ervand. Tortured Confessions: Prisons and Public Recantations in Modern Iran. Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press, 1999. pp. 31, 42
- ^ a b c Ladjevardi, Habib. Labor Unions and Autocracy in Iran. Contemporary issues in the Middle East. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1985. pp. 260-261
- Abrahamian, Ervand. Iran between Two Revolutions. [S.l.]: Princeton Univ Press, 1982. p. 295
- Abrahamian, Ervand. Tortured Confessions: Prisons and Public Recantations in Modern Iran. Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press, 1999. p. 15
- Abrahamian, Ervand. Tortured Confessions: Prisons and Public Recantations in Modern Iran. Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press, 1999. p. 78
- Abrahamian, Ervand. Iran between Two Revolutions. [S.l.]: Princeton Univ Press, 1982. p. 348