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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.
The Green armies (Russian: Зеленоармейцы, romanized: Zelenoarmeytsy), also known as the Green Army (Зелёная Армия, Zelonaya Armiya) or Greens (Зелёные, Zelonyye), were armed peasant groups which fought against all governments in the Russian Civil War from 1918 to 1922.
The West Siberian rebellion was the largest of the Russian peasant uprisings against the nascent Bolshevik state.It began in early 1921 and was defeated at the end of 1922, due in part to the brutal repression of the militarily superior Red Army, and the famine that the region suffered.
Russian troops under the orders of Tsar Alexander II put down a peasant rebellion led by Anton Petrov. The rebels were protesting the details of the Emancipation reform of 1861. Circassian genocide: 1800s–May 21, 1864 Circassia: 1,500,000-2,000,000 The Russian Empire ethnically cleansed the Circassian people. The survivors fled to the Ottoman ...
During the Russian Civil War he commanded a regiment and then a brigade in the Red Army participating in the fights against White Armies of Denikin, Wrangel and the peasant Tambov Rebellion of Alexander Antonov. From 1937 Kovalev was the commander of Kiev Military District, then from 1938, he was the commander of Belorussian Military District.
Cudgel War: Sweden: Finnish peasants Suppression of the rebellion [37] 1606–1607 Bolotnikov Rebellion: Tsardom of Russia: Russian peasants Suppression of the rebellion 1626–1636 Peasants' War in Upper Austria: Electorate of Bavaria: Austrian peasants Suppression of the rebellion [38] 1630–1633 Peasant Uprising in Podhale: Polish ...
Once Upon a Time There Lived a Simple Woman (Russian: Жила-была одна баба, romanized: Zhila-byla odna baba) is a 2011 film directed and written by Andrey Smirnov. It tells the story of a Russian peasant woman between 1909 and 1921. The film was funded by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and the Renova Group. [1]
The term muzhik, or moujik (Russian: мужи́к, IPA:) means "Russian peasant" when it is used in English. [5] [clarification needed] This word was borrowed from Russian into Western languages through translations of 19th-century Russian literature, describing Russian rural life of those times, and where the word muzhik was used to mean the most common rural dweller – a peasant – but ...