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Ideologies / State Capitalist / Reza Shah Pahlavi
Reza Shah Pahlavi — ink portrait
§ The minds · 1878–1944 · Iran · Shah

Reza Shah Pahlavi

Modernise by decree

State industry, royal command.

Rooted State Capitalist →
Economic+32
SocialistMarket
Governance+74
LibertarianAuthoritarian
Social−30
TraditionalProgressive
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The army officer who seized Iran's throne and dragged it toward industrial modernity — state-built railways, factories and banks — by autocratic command, a textbook of top-down state capitalism.

social

Forced-modernising nationalist, breaking with tradition from above.

economic

State-built railways, factories and a national bank.

governance

Autocratic monarch driving development from the throne.

Notable for
  • Founded the Pahlavi dynasty
  • Trans-Iranian Railway
  • State-led industrialisation
developmentalautocracymodernisation
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