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v. t. e. The Kronstadt rebellion (Russian: Кронштадтское восстание, romanized: Kronshtadtskoye vosstaniye) was a 1921 insurrection of Soviet sailors, naval infantry, [1] and civilians against the Bolshevik government in the Russian port city of Kronstadt. Located on Kotlin Island in the Gulf of Finland, Kronstadt defended ...
Two separate events at the Baltic fortress of Kronstadt on Kotlin Island are known as the Kronstadt mutinies. [1] The first took place on 8 November 1904, and was part of the 1904–1907 wave of political and social unrest of what became known as the 1905 Russian Revolution. The second was the July Days uprising of Russian sailors, soldiers and ...
The mutineers looted officers' homes and wine stores and set fire to buildings. A majority of Kronstadt's 13,000 sailors and soldiers participated in the mutiny. [3] On 28 October, the troops which Vice-Admiral Nikonov ordered from St. Petersburg arrived and suppressed the mutiny. By the end of the mutiny, 16 sailors and one civilian were killed.
The Russian Revolution of 1905, [c] also known as the First Russian Revolution, [d] began on 22 January 1905. A wave of mass political and social unrest then began to spread across the vast areas of the Russian Empire. The unrest was directed primarily against the Tsar, the nobility, and the ruling class. It included worker strikes, peasant ...
Stepan Maximovich Petrichenko (Russian: Степа́н Макси́мович Петриче́нко; 1892 – June 2, 1947) was a Russian revolutionary, an anarcho-syndicalist politician, the head of the self-styled "Soviet Republic of Soldiers and Fortress-Builders of Nargen" and in 1921, de facto leader of the Kronstadt Commune, and the ...
ISBN. 9780691630502. Kronstadt, 1921, is a history book by Paul Avrich about the 1921 Kronstadt rebellion against the Bolsheviks . In a 2003 bibliography of the era, Jon Smele summarized the book as, "masterfully written" and "the only full-length, scholarly, non-partisan account of the genesis, course and repression of the rebellion to have ...
The workers and sailors of the Kronstadt rebellion were promptly crushed by Red Army forces, with a thousand rebels killed in battle and another thousand executed the following weeks, with many more fleeing abroad and to the countryside. [150] [151] [152] These events coincided with the 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks).
Kronstadt (Russian: Кроншта́дт, romanized:Kronshtadt, IPA: [krɐnˈʂtat]) is a Russian port city in Kronshtadtsky District of the federal city of Saint Petersburg, located on Kotlin Island, 30 km (19 mi) west of Saint Petersburg, near the head of the Gulf of Finland. It is linked to the former Russian capital by a combination levee ...