Kronstadt Mutiny 1921

Question 1

What was the Kronstadt Mutiny?

Answer 1

Uprising of soldiers from the Kronstadt front of the Kronstadt naval base against orders on local soviets from Bolsheviks

Question 2

What was the Kronstadt soldiers slogan?

Answer 2

“Soviets without Bolsheviks”

Question 3

What was the Petropavlovsk manifesto?

Answer 3

• new soviet elections
—> end of Bolsheviks monopoly of
power

• freedom of speech
—> end of war communism

• abolition of Cheka
—> rights for trade unions

Question 4

What did Lenin and Trotsky accuse the Kronstadt soldiers of being

Answer 4

• Agents of the white army

• Counter-revolutionaries