The Tambov rising & Kronstadt Mutiny (1921)

Question 1

What caused enormous resentment in the countryside?

Answer 1

The Bolshevik policy of compulsory grain requestioning

Question 2

When were much of the countryside in an open revolt against the Bolsheviks?

Answer 2

1921

Question 3

Where did the fiercest fighting take place? who was it led by?

Answer 3

Took place in the Tambov province, to the south of Moscow, where 40,000 peasants led by Alexander Antonov waged conflict with the red army

Question 4

What was the Bolshevik governments’ response to the conflict in Tambov?

Answer 4

Brutal and extreme
Poison gas was used against the rebels, thousands of wives and children were taken hostage

Question 5

What were the effects of the Tambov rising?

Answer 5

• Large parts of the country were out of the authorities control
• Railway transport was disrupted
• Food crisis in the towns

Question 6

When did a strike happen in Moscow? & what was the response of the Cheka?

Answer 6

February 1921
Huge crowds took to the streets
Cheka opened fire, killing several of them

Question 7

What happened in the Petrograd?

Answer 7

A crowd of striking workers from the city’s engineering factories, docks and shipyards was fired upon by soldiers
At least 30 people were killed

Question 8

Who mutinied in support of the strikers in nearby Petrograd?

Answer 8

March 1921, 10,000 sailors of the Baltic fleet based in Kronstadt mutinied in support of the strikers

Question 9

What did the mutinies publish?

Answer 9

A 15-point manifesto, calling for legislation of all socialist and anarchist power, new soviet elections, rights for trade unions and a end to the special privileges for senior Bolsheviks

Question 10

What was the result of the Kronstadt mutiny?

Answer 10

It only lasted a fortnight, it was suppressed by 50,000 red army troops