This chapter focuses on the trajectory of the February Revolution in the Caucasian borderlands, where the situation was already contentious. What would be the boundaries of revolution in these areas, whose status was far from clear during the period? In a region where Russian influence had been felt for more than a century, established patterns of border exchange and cultural and political influence served to establish revolutionary bonds, while the recent history of the borderlands – notably the interconnected revolutions of the early 1900s – was reinterpreted. For Iranian democrats, the rapprochement with the Russian revolution constituted protection against encroachment by the Qajar government. The Iranian historian and contemporary Ahmad Kasravi summed it up later: Everywhere the soldiers and cossacks were excited, created committees, expressed their longing for freedom. Within revolutionary societies, inner borders are established, denigrating those parts of the population associated with the ancien regime while public honours go to former outlaws.