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table of contents
  1. Acknowledgments
  2. Note on Transliteration
  3. Introduction
  4. 1. The “Errand” to Iran
  5. 2. “Into the Commonwealth Stage”
  6. 3. “Spiritual Lend Lease”
  7. 4. “Something Other Than Ordinary Education”
  8. Map and photo gallery
  9. 5. “These Young Persian Friends of Mine”
  10. 6. The Persian “Boomerang”
  11. 7. “Build It for the Eye of God”
  12. Conclusion
  13. Notes
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index

The leaflet depicts a mosque, in black-and-white, with two minarets, a dome, and an archetypical Persian arch. A Soviet officer—colored in red—sits atop the mosque with gun in hand. The image is meant to play up concerns in Muslim-majority countries about atheistic communism.

Figure 10. “Communism in Russia,” August 18, 1956. A leaflet produced and distributed by the US Information Agency’s field office in Tehran. Courtesy of NARA. RG 306, P46, box 113.

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