Demands for change

Question 1

Peasants revolts

Answer 1

Widespread.
70,000 strong peasant army formed in the Tambov region.
The Red Army brutally suppressed the revolts (especially brutal when dealing with the Kulaks)
+poison gas was used against those hiding in forests

Question 2

Cities

Answer 2

Riots, strikes and protests against factory disciple.

Many workers openly supported other socialist parties

Question 3

January 1921

Answer 3

Martial Law declared but some regular soldiers refused to take action and the Cheka had to be brought in

Question 4

Kronstadt naval Base

Answer 4

Revolted in 1921.
(sailors here had been keen supporters of the October Revolution)
The sailors sent a manifesto to Lenin demanding an end to a one-party communist rule. The Red Ary was went 5 miles across the ice with the Cheka at their rear to stop deserters..
The sailors were denounced as “White Traitors”
This incident frightened Lenin at a time the Tambov revolt was reaching its peak.

Question 5

Trouble within the Bolshevik Party

Answer 5

Some members set up the “workers opposition” group.
- Including Alexandra Kollantai.
They opposed War Communism and wanted managers and military discipline removed from fractories.
Other- including Trotsky- wanted to intensify War Communism.

This reflected that there was a problem within the Party itself.

Question 6

What did Lenin describe the Kronstadt rebellion as?

Answer 6

“the flash which lit up reality between the anything else.”