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The Tambov Rebellion of 1920–1922 was one of the largest and best-organized peasant rebellions challenging the Bolshevik government during the Russian Civil War. [12] The uprising took place in the territories of the modern Tambov Oblast and part of the Voronezh Oblast , less than 500 kilometres (300 mi) southeast of Moscow.
Probably the best known green movement is the rebellion that broke out on August 19, 1920 in the small town of Khitrovo, as a rejection of food requisitions in the Tambov Oblast and quickly spread to Penza, Saratov and Voronezh. [126] This was defeated in June 1922 with the death of its leader, Aleksandr Antonov. [131]
A series of workers' strikes and peasants' rebellions against war communism policies broke out all over the country, such as the Tambov Rebellion (1920–1921), which was neutralized by the Red Army. A turning point came with the Kronstadt rebellion at the Kronstadt naval base in early March 1921, which also ended with a Bolshevik victory. The ...
Among the most significant was the Tambov Rebellion, which was put down by the Red Army. [218] To aid the famine victims, Herbert Hoover, the future President of the United States, established an American Relief Administration to distribute food. [219] Lenin was suspicious of this aid, and had it closely monitored. [220]
At the Tenth Party Congress, it was decided to end War Communism and institute the New Economic Policy (NEP), in which the state allowed a limited market to exist. Small private businesses were allowed and restrictions on political activity were somewhat eased. [36] However, the key shift involved the status of agricultural surpluses. Rather ...
He first appears on police records as a known revolutionary in 1908, when he travelled to Tambov to establish connections between his group and the Tambov Socialist Revolutionaries. [3] Antonov became an "expropriator", someone who carried out robberies to support the revolutionary cause (called "expropriations" by revolutionaries).
[21] [22] Europeans in Kazakhstan had disproportionate power in the party which has been argued as a cause of why indigenous nomads suffered the worst part of the collectivization process rather than the European sections of the country. [23] Holodomor: 1932c- 1933 Ukraine: 3.5-3.9 Million [24] in Ukraine; in total: ~5.7 to 8.7 million
The advent of the October Revolution caused the outbreak of civil war in Ukraine, as the forces of the Central Council and the Soviets struggled to take power in the country. [2] When the Ukrainian nationalists seized control of Oleksandrivsk , the local Bolsheviks and Left Socialist-Revolutionaries appealed for support from Ukrainian ...