An examination of the Impacts of “Land Reform” in Iranian Farmers’ Life in Political and Social Novels 1960s 1970s

“White Revolution” a name for social and economic reforms that Mohammad Reza Pahlavi confirmed in the 1960s and the 1970s was actualized as a result of growing domestic and international pressures. The purpose of these reforms was to keep out of traditional influential class and at once to rely on new groups specially farmers and new middle class. Hence, principles such as “Land Reforms”, “Sharing Workers in Profits of Factories”, and creation of the “Knowledge Corps”, were included in the “White Revolution” Plan. Reforms from above were taken by the regime, while social groups were against it due to an increasing level of tyranny on the one hand and expansion of US influence in Iran on the other. The repression led many intellectuals to criticize groups influenced by the changes brought about by “White Revolution” in the form of poetry and novels. Given this background, the purpose of this research is to study the impacts of "Land Reforms" on farmers in political and social novels during the 1960s and the 1970s, meanwhile using Lucien Goldmann’s theory of Sociology of Literature to reinforcement the scientific aspect of research. This research is descriptive and analytic. The research methodology, in this respect, is library-based. The data collection in this research is based on the scanning of documents and specialized publications and the analysis of political and social novels of this period, focusing on farmers’ lives. The result of research shows that during mentioned period, writers had criticized conditions of farmers in and by novel format and personages, and also they recognized the land reforms as main cause of worsening work and life conditions in rural areas.