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  2. Tambov Rebellion - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Green armies - Wikipedia

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    The Russian peasantry lived through two wars against the Russian state, the product of revolutions that ended with state victory: 1905-1907 and 1917-1922. [3] At the beginning of 1918 the Bolshevik Party only controlled a few cities, "unique Bolshevik islets in the middle of a peasant ocean" unwilling to hand over the fruits of their labor and ...

  4. List of massacres in Russia - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Red Terror - Wikipedia

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    Estimates suggest that during the suppression of the Tambov Rebellion of 1920–1921, around 100,000 peasant rebels and their families were imprisoned or deported and perhaps 15,000 executed. [50] During the rebellion, Mikhail Tukhachevsky (chief Red Army commander in the area) authorized Bolshevik military forces to use chemical weapons ...

  6. Prodrazverstka - Wikipedia

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    As the Russian Civil War approached its end in the 1920s, prodrazverstka lost its actuality, but it had done much damage to the agricultural sector and had caused growing discontent among peasants. [ citation needed ] As the government switched to the NEP (New Economic Policy), a decree of the 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party ...

  7. West Siberian rebellion - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. New drone attacks strike Russian fuel depots - AOL

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    Maxim Yegorov, governor of the Tambov region southeast of Moscow, said firefighters were tackling a blaze at the Platonovskaya fuel depot that broke out after an explosion probably caused by a drone.

  9. Serfdom in Russia - Wikipedia

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    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 ...