Jungle Movement of Gilan

Jungle Movement
Jungle Movement
Part of Consequences of World War I
Date	October 1915 – 5 June 1920
Location	Gilan, Persia
Caused by	Occupation of Iran by Anglo-Russian and Ottoman troops; Political decay caused after the Constitutional Revolution;
Methods	Widespread unrest, Civil war
Resulted in	Establishment of Persian Socialist Soviet Republic
Parties
Jungle revolutionaries Supported by: Soviet Russia (1920)	Russian Empire (1915–17); British Empire Qajar Persia (1918–20); Cossack Brigade;
Lead figures
	Mirza Kuchik Khan Gen. Nikolai Baratov (1915); Col. Lazar Bicherakhov (1918); Maj. Gen. Lionel Dunsterville (1918); Hassan Vosugh al-Dowleh (1918–20); Col. Vsevolod Starosselsky (1918–20);

The Jangal (Jungle) Movement, in Gilan, was a rebellion against the monarchist rule of the central government of Sublime State of Iran, which lasted from 1915 to 1921.

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