Mirza Kuchik Khan was an Iranian twentieth-century revolutionary leader and the president of the Gilan Socialist Soviet Republic. He was the founder of a revolutionary movement based in the forests of Gilan in northern Iran that became known as the Nehzat-e Jangal . This uprising started in 1914 and remained active against internal and foreign enemies until 1921 when the movement was completely abandoned after the demise of Mirza Kuchak Khan.
Image: Mirza Kochak Khan
Image: Mirza's Signature
Mirza Kuchak Khan before starting the rebellion (around 1914).
Red Iran wall newspaper of Russian Telegraph Agency (Russian Telegraph Agency) in Persian and Russian reads: Rasht June 27, 1920, Long Live Mirza Kuchek", in the honor of Mirza Kuchak Khan and celebration of the newly announced Soviet Republic of Gilan.
Persian Socialist Soviet Republic
The Iranian Soviet Socialist Republic, also known as the Socialist Soviet Republic of Gilan, was a short-lived unrecognized state, a Soviet republic in north-west of Caspian sea that lasted from June 1920 until September 1921. It was established by Mirza Kuchik Khan, a leader of the "Constitutionalist Movement of Gilan", and his Jangali partisans, with the assistance of the Soviet Russia's Red Army.
Stamp of Iranian Soviet Socialist Republic, 1920, showing the legendary rebel Kaveh the Blacksmith - one hand holding a hammer, and the other anachronistically waving the Republic's Red Flag.