Crises Flashcards
Army was reduced to peacetime strength of … in …
600,000 in late 1921
Pipes on peasants’ anger after Civil War concluded:
“The ‘masses’, who during the civil war had been told by the regime that the Whites were responsible for all their hardships refused to accept such explanations once the war had ended”
Tambov Region consumed :
414kg per head during 1913
69kg per head during 1921, which was 1/8th of what was required to live
Tambov region … the number of peasants were starving
Half
Between … and … of peasants were involved in the Tambov conflict:
20,000 and 50,000
Red Army deployed … soldiers in response to the Tambov Riot
100,000
Red Army executed … peasants
15,000 peasants
According to a Cheka report there were … peasant uprisings in …
118 peasant uprisings in February 1921
Figes on peasant uprisings:
“Less than 50 miles from the Kremlin … there were villages where it was dangerous for a Bolshevik to go”
In …, Petrograd workers threatened to launch a general strike after the bread ration was cut by …
February 1921, one third
Petrechenko:
“We have fallen into a terrible mire, pulled in … by a group of Communist bureaucrats”
Demands of Kronstadt referred to as :
“Soviets without Communists”
Kronstadt revolt in … results in … Bolsheviks overcoming … sailors
16 to 17 March, 50,000 Bolshevik forces overcome 17,000 Kronstadt sailors
Trotsky on Kronstadt after October Revolution:
“the pride and glory of the Russian revolution”
Factionalism was:
The tendency for parties to not always agree
