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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 small chapel commemorating the victims of the Tambov Rebellion was unveiled by Alexios II in 1993. The monastery has the tallest belltower in Central Russia, rising to a height of 107 meters. [1] This Neoclassical campanile was built between 2009 and 2014 to replace a smaller structure demolished by the Communists.
[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
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).
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 ...
[26] [27] Additionally, the forced requisition of food by the Soviet government led to substantial resistance, of which the most notable was the Tambov Rebellion, ultimately put down by the Red Army. [28] Russian Civil War in the European part of Russia. The civil war had a devastating impact on the economy.
Throughout the history of the Soviet Union, tens of millions of people suffered political repression, which was an instrument of the state since the October Revolution.It culminated during the Stalin era, then declined, but it continued to exist during the "Khrushchev Thaw", followed by increased persecution of Soviet dissidents during the Brezhnev era, and it did not cease to exist until late ...