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Oral History of the Cultural Front of Islamic Revolution; a New Realm of Revolution Historiography
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High School Writing Tantamount to Division Writing
The history of cultural and artistic activities of the periods leading to revolution and the years of 1380s
The title of cultural front of the revolution correctly encompasses all cultural and artistic realms which are ignored in other historiographies. The movement of the cultural front of Islamic revolution includes theater and chanson groups in mosques, schools and other bases, libraries, painting and graphic groups, story and poem literary circles, wall-newspapers and even periodicals and booklets, local radios and documentary films making, the educative activities of pedagogy teachers, teachers of literacy movement, NGOs, Islamic societies, members of Jihad Sazandegi [construction movement] and all those who have born the burden of revolution in extensive cultural and artistic activities. But high schools active in the first decades of the revolution are one of the most comprehensive cultural and artistic circles which almost encompass all above activities.
High schools were involved in both questions of educating their students and training them, and also following many other activities from theater and chanson groups, wall-newspapers, wall-paintings, Jihadi camps, performing revolutionary and religious ceremonies, student constitutions like Islamic societies and Basij, to educative affairs and libraries… even in teachers and schoolmasters groups.
High schools have had a special place regarding their comprehensiveness, but when they are considered in the historical trend of the revolution, in the background of the students demonstrations, organizing revolutionary committees, helping the poor, active presence in Fridays prayers, scientific conflicts with members of radical gangs, resisting against MKO[called in Iran as Hypocrites], managing the general culture of the city, presence in war and funeral ceremony of the martyrs and undertaking a thousands of pending works of the revolution, they win double importance. High schools enjoy an interesting and notable diversity in terms of narrators of the adventures and memories. Bearing in mind the principals and schoolmasters, teachers, pedagogy teachers, library and conference halls custodians, janitors and on the other hand the students in different grades, teachers of the Islamic societies and… prove that high schools in terms of variety of subjects, adventures, narrators and time range are similar to divisions and battalions in war fronts or probably more attractive and expansive.
Translator: Asghar Aboutorabi
Source: Rah Cultural Analytical Journal, December 2014, No. 59, p.115.
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