Contents

● Articles

  - The Increasing Despotism; the Third Decade of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi’s Reign / Mozaffar Shadedi

  - The Institute of Social Research and Studies / Safaaddin Tabarraian

   ـNasseraddin Shah’s Visit to the International Exposition of Paris (1878) / Mohammad Reza Behzadi

  - Fire in Azerbaijan, “ the Russo-Iranian wars, the Situation in Azerbaijan and the Roots for Iran’s defeats / Asghar Heidari

  - The Biographies of Pahlavi Statesmen / Fatemeh Moezzi

● Interview

   - The Azerbaijan Democratic Party in the Words of Ebrahim Nassehi / Interviewed by Morteza Rassoulipour, composed by Marjan Rami

● Records

   - The Relationship of the Soviet Union and Iran (1918-1951) according to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Records / Ata Ayati

   - The Last Qajar Prince / Jalal Farahmand

● Reports

   - Report on the National Conference for Surveying the Political Events of Iran’s Kurdish Areas / Reza Hosseini