-Rajesh Tyagi/
13.3.2016
Direct intervention
of ‘Red October’ through creation of Soviet Republic in Gilan province in Northern
Iran, was the first big intervention of victorious proletariat in the East after
initial setbacks to revolutions in the West. No doubt that a success in the East
could have well set-off the eventual impact of defeats in the West.
The
victorious revolution, however, was smothered and defeated by the timidity and conservativeness
of a section of the right-wingers inside soviet leadership, that immediately found its echo
in more conservative Persian nationalism that responded to its call through more
aggressive nationalism. The right-wing, organized at
that time under Bukharin, inside the bolshevik leadership, opposed Trotsky’s line of aggressive interventions, fomenting revolutions on foreign lands, through its conservative proposal to
defend soviet Russia through pacts with bourgeois states like Britain.
The defeat in the East, the final destruction of victorious revolution in Gilan, was the direct offshoot of sectarian-nationalist policy of right-wingers inside soviet regimes of USSR and Gilan. These defeats, finally paved the way to stabilization of reactionary regime in Tehran, stamping out, for decades, a ripe revolution.
How a matured victory was pushed into embrace of crushing defeat by adherents of nationalism, is the telling story in Persian
revolution, one among the many in series in its aftermath all over the world, from China to Spain and Indonesia to Chile.
