Meanings
- historicalA series of wide-reaching reforms to end feudalism and modernize Iran that lasted from 1963 to 1979.
The “white revolution” is based on a six-point program. Briefly it calls for land redistribution, profit-sharing for factory workers, nationalization of forests, a literacy corps, the sale of some state factories to help finance the program and electoral reforms, including woman suffrage.
1963 October 27, Jay Walz, “Iran's Shah Leads a ‘White Revolution’”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC
Origin
- Persianانقلاب سفید
- EnglishWhite Revolution
Calque of Persian انقلاب سفید.
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