Conceptual Framework: The Study of Revolution - Science of Anarchy or Anarchy of Science? Historical Background: The Constitutional Movement and Below - The June Uprising of 1963. Preconditions of the Islamic Revolution: Economic Development and Political Decay; Opposition to the Pahlavi Regime - Its Ideological and Organizational Bases; The Crisis of Wealth. The Mechanics of the Transfer of Power: The Anatomy of Iran's Revolutionary Movement - From Demanding Reforms to Dethroning a King. The Post-Revolutionary Power Struggle: The Rise and Fall of the Provisional Revolutionary Government - A Good Government for a Wrong Time; Iran's First Encounter with the Presidency and the Drive Towards Radicalism; Khomeini and the Challenge to Govern; The Drive Toward Moderation - Iran Under Khomeini and Rafsanjani.