HOSSEIN MAKKI AND HIS “TWENTY-YEAR HISTORY OF IRAN”

The essay is dedicated to the 110th anniversary of the famous Iranian historian and public figure Hossein Makki. It examines the difficult life path of Hossein Makki, who by birth did not belong to the privileged social strata of society, who achieved everything through his own labor and earned his living by working as a teacher, a worker in a bicycle assembly workshop, and served in the army. At the same time, Hossein Makki constantly improved his educational level. After the fall of the dictatorship of Reza Shah, he became involved in political activities and acts as one of the founders of the Iran party, which was close in its views to social democracy, and collaborated with Dr. Mossadegh. He was elected three times to the Iranian Mejlis (parliament). At the same time, he began to write his works on Iranian history, which started to appear in different influential magazines. Among them there are the first sketches of the work, which later became his main creation — The Twenty-year History of Iran. As it turned out, the work on this study took forty years. Gradually, his political activity declined, and he focuses exclusively on academic work. All his works are written in an extremely lively and figurative language, making use of a large number of sources, memoirs of contemporaries, transcripts of meetings of the Mejlis. Each of them shows the author’s great love for his country. In this essay the author analyzes the features and stylistics of Hossein Makki’s historical narratives and expresses his attitude towards him and his works in a somewhat poetic form.