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Alongside it arose grassroots community assemblies (called ‘Soviets’) which contended for authority. In the second revolution that October, the Provisional Government was toppled and all power was given to the Soviets.
Monireh Taslimi, born Monir Akhundnia in 1926 in Bandar Anzali (then known as Bandar Pahlavi), …