Le Tudeh (en persan : حزب توده ایران, Hezb-e Tudeh-ye Iran), traduit par « Parti des masses d'Iran » est un parti communiste iranien fondé en 1941. Il a eu des relations étroites avec le Parti communiste de l'Union soviétique. C'était un parti politique majeur en Iran avant les purges ayant eu lieu lors de l'établissement de la République islamique d'Iran.
« Thus the Tudeh Party introduced the Stalinist version of Marxism into Iran. As was discussed before, in the late 1950s the Third Worldist ideology and its socialist variant appeared in Iran, basically through the impact of the Chinese, Cuban and Vietnamese Revolutions »
« Yet, when the Soviet Union demanded its oil concession the following year the Tudeh Party extended full support on ideological grounds. The Tudeh Party evolved towards a Stalinist pro-Moscow Party, ultimately losing much public support. International political pressures transformed the Tudeh Party into the local evangelical force of the Stalinist faith by 1949. »
« At the end of 1984 the party returned to a rigid Stalinist interpretation of post-Second World War developments in Soviet-Iranian relations... »
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