Name-ye Mardom (Persian: نامهٔ مردم, romanizednāma-ye mardom, lit.'The People's Letter') is a newspaper which has been published by the Tudeh Party of Iran during different periods with different outlooks.

Name-ye Mardom
General managerReza Radmanesh
Political alignmentTudeh Party
LanguagePersian
CountryIran
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OCLC number269184338
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Name-ye Mardom was originally an intellectual journal and emphasized on ideological subjects.[1]

"Filthy Hope" (omid-e palid), a poem by Nima Yooshij was first published by the newspaper in 1943, with a foreword by Ehsan Tabari.[2]

According to Ervand Abrahamian, the political line of the newspaper can be divided into two terms marked by the party's second congress in 1948.[1] Before the second congress, it used to publish articles sympathetic towards a wide range of socialist thinkers, including Henri de Saint-Simon, Karl Kautsky, Georgi Plekhanov, and Jean-Paul Sartre.[1] However, it then turned into a more Soviet-approved newspaper by publishing articles on Vladimir Lenin's One Step Forward, Two Steps Back; Social Realism in the Arts by Andrei Zhdanov; and works of Joseph Stalin such as Question of Nationalities, Marxism and Linguistics, Internal Contradictions of the Party and Short History of the Bolshevik Party.[1]

After the Iranian Revolution, it served as the official daily of the party.[3]

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  1. ^ a b c d Abrahamian, Ervand (1982). Iran Between Two Revolutions. Princeton University Press. p. 316. ISBN 0-691-10134-5.
  2. ^ Talattof, Kamran (2015), Persian Language, Literature and Culture: New Leaves, Fresh Looks, Routledge, p. 107, ISBN 9781317576914
  3. ^ Parvin, Nassereddin (29 November 2011) [15 December 1995]. "DONYĀ". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica. Fasc. 5. Vol. VII. New York City: Bibliotheca Persica Press. pp. 498–499. Retrieved 12 September 2016.