CONTENTS
Preface / v I HISTORY / 1 Before 1800, I ; The Nineteenth Century, 4; The First World War, 9 ; Between the Wars, II
II THE SECOND WORLD WAR / 14 The Russians, the Kurds, and the War, 14; Kurdish Tribes in Iran, 16; The First Visit to Baku, 23
III MAHABAD / 25 The Police Station, 25; The Town, 26; The People, 27; Minorities and Religion, 28; Qazi Muhammad, 3o
IV THE KOMALA / 33 The Founding, 33; The Central Committee, 34; Expansion, 35; Greater Kurdistan, 36; Qazi's Membership, 39; A Kurdish Opera, 39; Azerbai- jan and Kurdistan, 41
V THE SECOND VISIT TO BAKU / 43
VI THE BARZANIS / 47 Their Past, 47; Tribal Life, 49; Mulla Mustafa Returns, 51; The 1945 Revolt, 53
VII PRELUDE TO THE REPUBLIC / 55 Rifles, 55 ; Barzanis and Associates, 55; The Democratic Party of Kurdistan, 56; Azerbaijani Autonomy, 59; Kurdish Autonomy, 6o VIII THE REPUBLIC FORMED / 62 22 January 1946, 62; The Russian Presence, 64; The Cabinet, 67
IX MARCH / 72 The Iranian Case, 72; In Tabriz, 74; The Barzanis at Mahabad, 75; Tabriz Again, 76; A Mahabad Army, 77
X APRIL / 80 The International Setting, 8o; The Kurdistan— Azerbaijan Territorial Dispute, 8o; The Kurdish- Azerbaijani Treaty, 81; Students for the USSR, 83 ; Qahrawa, 85
XI MAY / 87 Tobacco, 87; Iran and Azerbaijan, 88; The Big Offensive, 89 ; Negotiations, 92 ; Irano-Azerbai- jani Agreement, 93
XII JUNE / 95 Mamashah, 95; Concerning the Offensive, 97; Détente and Truce, 99
XIII JULY / 100 Conditions in the Republic, too; Soviet Influence and Political Tendencies, 102 ; The Northern Front, 104
XIV INTERLUDE / 106 Meeting in Tehran, Io6; Iranian Decisions, Io6; Final Alignments, 108
XV THE END / 111 The Fall of Azerbaijan, III ; The Fall of Maha- bad, 11 2 ; Arms and Arrests, 116; The Alvand Plan, 117 ; In Baku, 118 XVI THE AFTERMATH / 119 The Barzanis Again, 119; Decision in Mahabad, 121; A Final Scene, 126
XVII EPILOGUE / 130 APPENDICES I-THE FIRST VISIT TO BAKU / 133 II-THE FOUNDERS OF THE KOMALA / 133 III-THE SECOND VISIT TO BAKU / 133 IV-MEMBERS OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF KURDISTAN IN 1946 AND THE CABINET / 134 V-MEMBERS OF THE SUPREME COUNCIL OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF KURDISTAN FORMED IN MAY 1946 / 134 VI-DIRECTORS-GENERAL AND OTHER PERSONALITIES OF THE KURDISH REPUBLIC, 1946 / 135 VII-AN INCOMPLETE LIST OF KURDISH ARMY OFFICERS / 136
Index / 137
ILLUSTRATIONS
PLATES 1 On a road in Kurdistan (Iraq) 2 `Faqraqa' : an early Median tomb near Qum Qaleh, ten miles from Mahabad 3 Ismail Agha `Simko' at the height of his influence, c. 1921 4 Shaikh Abdullah Effendi Gilani in 1961 5 The Mahabad Police Station (1961) 6 Chom i Sauj Bulaqeh and Mahabad (1961) 7 Faqih (theological students) in a street of Mahabad (1961) 8 Kurdish girls of Mahabad 9 Children in Gazgasek village, west of Mahabad (1960) 10 Mahabad (1961) 11 Street auction in Mahabad (1961) 12 Entrance to Saqqiz from the Baneh road (1961) 13 Mulla Mustafa Barzani (1946) 14 In the bombed-out house of the Shaikhs of Barzan (1955) 15 Muhammad Agha Mergasor, Chief of the Shirwan tribe (Barzani) below police post destroyed by Mulla Mustafa in 1945 (1955) 16 26 of Azar (17 December 1945) : Iranian flag replaced by Kurdish flag at the Mahabad Department of Justice 17 Proclamation of the Republic 18 Mahabad, 1946 19 The Cabinet and other officials, Mahabad, February 1946 20 Chiana village near Naqadeh, spring 1946 21 Officers of the Mahabad army |