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WWCiv 16: Persia and Portugal get constitutions, 1909 and 1910

The Anti Empire Project with Justin Podur

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The Greek Revolution of 1910

The 1911 intervention, it is interesting. I have not read a lot of Russian sources on it, but the British sources are pretty clear that, well, you know, it was the Russians and we had to go along to protect France. Yes, they are dragged into it. When you're Mr. Knox with his Anglo-Iranian petroleum company, you know what that became, right? BP. Oh, that's British petroleum there. That's amazing. Yeah. There was a kind of a revolution called the Gaudy coup, which has a common with the Persian and Portuguese revolutions. El Efterios Venizelos is the person. We're going to meet him in

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