ABSTRACT
The developments in north Persia during the summer of 1920 led the Foreign Office to the conclusion that “the Persian temperament” was not “susceptible to the virus of Bolshevism.” There was “no case of any Soviet organisation remaining after the removal of the force of the invaders.” “It is true that considerable anxiety was felt in regard to the possibility of a Bolshevik Government being set up in Persia,” Esmond Ovey wrote in a memorandum submitted to Curzon, “but this fear seems to have been almost exclusively based on the natural apprehension of a Bolshevik invasion in force.”1
