Document Type : pajoheshi

Authors

• mohsen parvish ¹
• moha,mad bitarafan ²

¹ Assistant Professor, Department of History, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili , Ardabil, Iran.

² Assistant Professor, Department of History, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

The rulers of the second Pahlavi government did not consider merely distributing land among the peasants sufficient to achieve the goals of land reform. Therefore, they sought to create various organizations in addition to it in order to achieve the goals of land reform in Iran. One of these institutions was the rural culture houses, which included various facilities, including radio and television clubs, libraries, and other cultural and educational services. This research, with a historical-analytical approach and relying on documentary data from the archives of the National Archives and Library of Iran, seeks to examine the role and performance of rural culture houses in West Azerbaijan province during the second Pahlavi era. The innovation of this research lies in analyzing the performance of these houses within the theoretical framework of top-down development and institutional inefficiency. The research findings indicate that the rural culture houses of West Azerbaijan, like other rural culture houses in the country, were unable to effectively implement various educational, cultural, health, and sports programs and activities due to the lack of adaptation of the programs to the most urgent and important real needs of the villagers, the lack of local participation, structural and bureaucratic weakness, and the lack of provision of the necessary infrastructure. This failure reflected the limitations of centralized and non-participatory development approaches in the context of Iranian rural society at that time.
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Keywords

• Houses of culture
• education
• villagers
• West Azerbaijan
• Pahlavi II

Main Subjects

• Iran Local Histories