The Bolshevik Politburo approved material assistance for Kuchik Khan’s movement. Support for local revolution coexisted uneasily with Soviet diplomatic assurances to Iran.
Kuchik Khan proclaimed a Soviet Socialist Republic of Iran in Rasht. The alliance linked Iranian resistance to foreign domination with Soviet-backed revolution, while differences persisted.
Kuchik Khan died in the Talesh mountains after the collapse of the Gilan revolutionary experiment. His death marked the defeat of an Iranian movement with an unstable Soviet alliance.
