Social or political revolution? The pattern of revolutionary developments in Iran and Georgia

The Islamic Republic of Iran and the Republic of Georgia underwent a revolutionary transformation in ۱۹۷۹ and ۲۰۰۳; However, there are fundamental differences between the two revolutions, including in ideology, the extent and scope of revolutionary developments, the nature of social forces and movements, the nature of the former and post-political regimes, and the direction of their new foreign policy. The country has been very influential in both domestic and foreign arenas. With this in mind, this article seeks to examine why the Iranian revolution became social in ۱۹۷۹ while the Georgian revolution in ۲۰۰۳ was limited to the political sphere. It seems that the Islamic Revolution of Iran in ۱۹۷۹, in response to the quasi-modernism of the Pahlavi period and inspired by cultural and identity components, led to the formation of a discourse called self-return, which realized such a possibility without changing political, social, economic and Culture was not possible. But the color revolution in Georgia, under the influence of components of historical memory resulting from the suppression of nationalist and independence-seeking tendencies, saw a change in the ruling political structure as sufficient to achieve this goal. Data and information of this research have been collected through documentary (library) method and have been analyzed using comparative analysis method. In order to examine the above question and hypothesis, this comparative study first takes a brief look at the background of the formation of the two revolutions and then examines their possible differences and similarities.

Keywords:

Social revolution , Political Revolution , Iran , Georgia , Pseudo-Modernism , independence