TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chaquèri,Cosroe
TI  - The Soviet Socialist Republic of Iran, 1920-1921: birth of the trauma 
T2  - Pitt series in Russian and East European studies
SN  - 0822937921
AV  - DS316.6 .C43 1995
PY  - 1995///
CY  - Pittsburgh
PB  - University of Pittsburgh Press
KW  - Mīrzā Kūchak, Yūnus,
KW  - Communism
KW  - Iran
KW  - History
KW  - Gilan (Soviet republic)
N1  - Series number taken from CIP data sheet; Includes bibliographical references (pages 613-630) and index; tForeword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Caspian Coast; The Caspian Region and Iran's Colonial Dysdevelopment; Kuchek Khan and the Development of the Jangali Movement; The Jangali Political Program and Structure; The New Jangali Dilemma; The Jangalis in the Eyes of Foreign Powers; The Bolshevik Diplomatic Offensive and the Advent of Iranian Communism; Resurgence of the Movement and the Landing of Soviet Troops in Northern Iran; Establishment of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Iran; An Unlikely Coalition; Gilan Under Communist Rule; Triangular Negotiations; The Persian Question in British Eastern Policy and the 1921 Coup d'Etat; Two-Pronged Soviet Policy, Continued; Soviet Mediation, Revolution's Kiss of Death; Iran's Liberation at the Crossroads of Neocolonialism and "Socialism in One Country"; Epilogue; Appendix; Notes; References; Index
N2  - The story of the Jangalis, noncommunist revolutionaries who battled tsarist and British occupation forces in their homeland between 1915 and 1921, is critical to an understanding of twentieth-century Iran. Yet their struggle, commanded by the legendary Kuchek Khan, has been neglected, often deliberately falsified. The Pahlavi regime imposed a curtain of silence, Soviet historians attacked the movement's noncommunist leaders, and the British generally have accepted the Soviet interpretation. Now Cosroe Chaqueri brings fresh evidence, based on recently available documents from secret Soviet archives, that sheds dramatic new light on a brief but decisive moment in modern Iranian history. In reconstructing the record of the guerrilla movement that, with Soviet Russia's help, led to the establishment of the "first Soviet Socialist Republic" in the East, Chaqueri discredits the false versions of that episode and examines the internal and neocolonial external forces that precipitated its downfall. He blames foreign intervention but also locates the roots of Iran's failure to achieve independence in the socioeconomic and mental structures that have controlled the actions of Iranian leaders from ancient times until today's neo-Islamic regime
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