Quarterly Journal of History Department Title: Middle classes in oil industry national movement

Iran contemporary history includes colonial anti-colonial autocracy, antiautocratic. This dialogue affected middle classes. Attitude of classesʼ classes in political, social and economic indicates their reactions differently. So, in oil industry national move ment, most of representatives of these clases have important role, participation, connection with sovereignty; Dr. Mossadeq government and attitude of this. This paper analyses roles of classesʼ aspect of compositive teory about individualism, collectivism and connection both of them. In fact, this teory tells this movement neither individualism, not collectivism, perhaps both of them affected by movement’s results. So, this research presents place of classes in oil industry national movement and role of them in it. Therefore, compositive theory corresponds social forces and middle classes in this era of history contemporary in Iran.