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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]
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 ...
In Australia, where voting is compulsory, [3] early voting is usually known as "pre-poll voting". Voters are able to cast a pre-poll vote for a number of reasons, including being away from the electorate, travelling, impending maternity, being unable to leave one's workplace, having religious beliefs that prevent attendance at a polling place, or being more than 8 km from a polling place. [4]
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]
Tambov Governorate (Russian: Тамбовская губерния, romanized: Tambovskaya guberniya) was an administrative-territorial unit of the Russian Empire, the Russian Republic, and the Russian SFSR, with its capital in Tambov. It was located between 51°14' and 55°6' north and between 38°9' and 43°38' east.
Worsening economic conditions, however, created mass social turmoil. This came to a head after the final defeat of organised White military forces in the autumn of 1920 with mass peasant insurgencies, such as the Tambov Rebellion. They were brutally suppressed. [15]