Военное обозрение By Top War
In the 20th century, several attempts to modernize traditional societies in different countries failed right before our eyes. We have once again become convinced of the futility of “progressivism” and the truth of James Cook’s aphorism, according to which “every nation can be happy only at its own level of civilization.” The modernization of the Soviet Central Asian republics and Turkey should probably be recognized as exceptions. But even in these countries we see a certain “rollback” – after the collapse of the USSR and the death of Kemal Ataturk, respectively.
The most notorious of such “revenges” of traditionalists was, of course, the famous Iranian Islamic Revolution of 1979, when compatriots and co-religionists entered into a brutal confrontation in this country. In the end, the fanatical supporters of Shiite Islam won. We will talk about this in a short series of three articles.
Pahlavi Dynasty
The first monarch of Iran’s Pahlavi dynasty was Reza Shah, who had previously served in the Persian Cossack Brigade.
Cossacks of the Persian Brigade in a photograph from 1920.
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