^According to page 92 of Abdy Javadzadeh's Iranian Irony: Marxists Becoming Muslims, Jangal means "jungle or forest" and referred to where the members of the movement came from. He also notes that members of the group were called Jangaliha and describes them as Muslims fighting for land reform in Iran's northern Gilan province.
^Homa Katouzian, The Political Economy of Modern Iran: Despotism and Pseudo-Modernism, 1926–1979 (London: MacMillan, 1981), 75.
^Hooshang Amirahmadi, The Political Economy of Iran under the Qajars: Society, Politics, Economics and Foreign Relations 1799 to 1921 (London: I.B. Tauris, 2012), xiv.
^A. Asgharzadeh, Iran and the Challenge of Diversity, 86.
^ 6.06.16.2Amirahmadi, The Political Economy of Iran under the Qajars, 228.
^Abdy Javadzadeh, Iranian Irony: Marxists Becoming Muslims (Pittsburgh: Rose Dog Books, 2011), 93, 113.
^Katouzian, The Political Economy of Modern Iran, 76.
^Amirahmadi,The Political Economy of Iran under the Qajars, 119.
^Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, Frontier Fictions: Shaping the Iranian Nation, 1804-1946 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Library, 1999), 154.
^Amirahmadi, The Political Economy of Iran under the Qajars, 230-231.
^A. Asgharzadeh, Iran and the Challenge of Diversity: Islamic Fundamentalism, Aryanist Racism, and Democratic Struggles (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), 18.
^ 17.017.117.2Amirahmadi, The Political Economy of Iran under the Qajars, 229.
^Maziar Behrooz, "The Iranian Revolution and the Legacy of the Guerrilla Movement," Reformers and Revolutionaries in Modern Iran: New Perspectives on the Iranian Left (ed. Dr Stephanie Cronin, London: Routledge, 2004), 197.
^A Century of Revolution: Social Movements in Iran, edited by John Foran notes a non-English language book by Mustafa Shu'a'iyan titled Nigahi beh Ravabit-i Shuravi va Nahzat-i Inqilabi-i Jangal that focuses on the relationship between the USSR and the Jangal movement.
^See Tarikh-i Enghelab-i Jangal by Muhammad Ali Gilak, Rasht, 1992.
^Reza Shabani, The Book of Iran: A Selection of the History of Iran, translated by Mahmoud Farrokhpey (Alhoda: Organization for Islamic Culture and Communications, 2005), first edition, p. 265.
Ebrahim Fakhrayi, Sardar-e Jangal (The Commander of the Jangalis), Tehran: Javidan,1983.
Gregor Yaghikiyan, Shooravi and Jonbesh-e Jangal (The Soviet Union and the Jangali Movement), Editor: Borzouyeh Dehgan, Tehran: Novin, 1984.
Khosro Shākeri, Milāde Zakhm: Jonbesh-e Jangal va Jomhuri-ye Shoravi-ye Socialist-e Iran in Persian, first edition, 715 p. (Akhtarān Press, Tehran, 2007). ISBN978-964-8897-27-2 . Published in English as Cosroe ChaqueriThe Soviet Socialist Republic of Iran, 1920-21: Birth of the Trauma (Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994), ISBN9780822937920.