This case study examines the implementation and consequences of the White Revolution’s agrarian reforms in Gilan, the verdant Caspian province with a distinct history of peasant activism and political radicalism. As detailed in the main overview, the Pahlavi land reform program was a nationwide policy of social engineering. In Gilan, however, it encountered a rural society uniquely shaped by its ecology of rice and tea cultivation, its legacy of the Jangal (Forest) Movement and the Soviet Republic of Gilan (1920-21), and a peasantry with a demonstrated capacity for organization.