GANJINE-YE ASNAD
Year:2019 | Volume:29 | Issue:1 (113) |Papers Count:7

Purpose: This article reports the consequences of the implementation of a law that passed the Iranian parliament in 1929 to end the chronic imbalance of the nation’ s foreign trade by granting the government the exclusive right of doing foreign trade. Method and Research Design: Data for this study was collected from the records held at the National Archives of Iran. Findings and Conclusion: The success of previous strategies to reduce the imbalance was limited. The Great Depression of the 1929 worsened the situation. As the result, the government adopted the new strategy of holding full control of foreign trade to prevent the decline of foreign revenues. However, this in practice led to the expansion of the state bureaucracy’ s interference in other aspects of the economy.

Purpose: The strategy adopted by the 3rd Development Plan for providing employment for rural migrants and its failure are discussed in this article. Method and Research Design: Data for this paper is gathered from archival records and library resources. Findings and Conclusion: Following the land reform of 1963, massive migration from rural areas to the cities became the main mode of internal migration in Iran. Benefiting from continuous increase in oil revenues, the 3rd national development plan invested heavily in industrial projects in order to provide employment for rural migrants who moved to large cities following the land reform. However, the success of the strategy was limited because of two reasons: 1) capital-intensive industries were not labor-intensive; 2) rural migrants lacked the skills required by such industries.

Purpose: This article discusses the promotional and recruitment activities carried out in the high schools of Khorasan by the Provincial Committee of the Tudeh Party between 1941-1956. Method and Research Design: Data was collected from archival records, supplemented by library resources. Findings and Conclusion: Because of the heavily religious atmosphere of the region and the lack of a working class, communist propaganda enjoyed little success among mainstream society. Therefore, the Committee focused on high school teachers, students and the education system. The Committee’ s activities are divided into three parts: from 1942 to 1948; From 1951 to 1953, and from 1953 to 1956, when its efforts terminated as the result of public distrust. Furthermore, prosecution by security forces limited the success of party activists. Many of them, as a result, withdrew from the party. Those few who persisted in their efforts lost their jobs. After the establishment of SAVAK, the party sympathizers did not find a chance to renew their activities.

Purpose: Problems of Iranian women in the 1920s, as discussed in two women’ s magazines published by prominent Iranian women, are identified. Method and Research Design: Apart from the data collected from the contents of the magazine, records of the National Archives of Iran was consulted for supporting data. Findings and Conclusion: Zabaan-e Zanaan [approx.: Women’ s Voice] was owned by a pioneer of women’ s rights, Sedigheh Dowlat-Aabaadi (1882-1961), and published first as a newspaper in her home town of Isfahan (1920). After publication was suspended because she attacked the government’ s foreign policies, she published it for two years as an exclusively women’ s magazine in Tehran. Aalam-e Nesvaan [Women’ s World], owned by Navvaabeh Safavi, was published by the graduates of the American School for Girls in the Presbyterian missionary compound in Tehran for 13 years (circa. 1920-1933). Both magazines defended and continuously called for equal rights and public education for women, women’ s health issues, campaigned against the Hijab and polygamy, asked for radical reform of marriage law and campaigned against child marriage.

Purpose: This paper discusses legal requirements for online publication of oral history interviews. Method and Research Design: Issues relating to the publication of oral history interviews were identified from library resources. Then the websites of the Miller Archival Center, National Archives of Singapore, University of Harvard, NASA Oral History Center, and the National Archives of Iran were checked for their regulations regarding the publication records of oral history documents. Findings and Conclusion: The considerations with regard to the carrying out and publication of interviews are important: The narrator must be made aware of the purpose of the interview; legal issues should be mentioned at the beginning of the interview, seeking the permission of the narrator for releasing the content of the interview on the web, complying with the ethical issues, familiarity of those responsible for electronic publication with databases and having a policy statement before release.

Purpose: Seeks the views of experts about applicability of METS to OAIS for Persian digital records. Method and Research Design: For data collection a questionnaire with 145 items, extracted as METS components, was sent to 30 digital preservation experts in Iran and abroad. The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by professionals in the field. Cronbach’ s test (0/98) and bisection method were applied for reliability measurement. Findings and Conclusion: Out of 145 items, the respondents considered 63 as important. Most of these items belonged to management, data management, and access. Overall, they found METS suitable for managing digital documents in packages and entities of the open archival information system.

Purpose: This paper aims to the explorer social and economic status of the brides and grooms in the indicated time period, based on the content and the form of marriage contracts. Method and Research Design: Data extracted from marriage contracts held at the National Archives of Iran was categorized and added into tables. Inferences were made based on such data. Findings and Conclusion: Social status of the couple had influence on the size, appearance and the content of the contracts. Mahriyyeh (=the sum of money, property, or valuable items that the bridegroom undertakes to pay the bride) varied, largely based on the economic and social status of the two sides. In the rural and tribal areas Mahriyyeh often included orchard, farmland, the share of irrigation water rights and sheep. In the urban areas, in addition to money, it consisted of gold, silver, slaves, and property. Marriage often took place among relatives with similar occupations or public positions and in close vicinities.