21 Facts About Kronstadt rebellion

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Government accused opponents of being French-led counterrevolutionaries and claimed that the Kronstadt rebellion rebels were commanded by General Kozlovski, the former Tsarist officer then responsible for base artillery, although it was in the hands of the Revolutionary Committee.

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Trotsky presented alleged French press articles announcing the revolt two weeks before its outbreak as proof that the Kronstadt rebellion was a plan devised by the emigre and the forces of the Entente.

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The Kronstadt rebellion rebels had little contact with the emigrants during the revolt, although some rebels joined Wrangel's forces after the insurrection failed.

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4.

The agent reported that the Kronstadt rebellion was a "premature manifestation of their plans".

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The citizens of Kronstadt rebellion did not want the holding of a new constituent assembly or the return of representative democracy, but the return of power to the free workers councils.

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6.

For Lenin, Kronstadt rebellion's demands displayed a "semi-anarchist" and "petty-bourgeois" character but, as the concerns of the peasantry and workers reflected, they posed a far greater threat to their government than the White armies.

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That night, the Kronstadt rebellion PRC sent a 250-man detachment to Oranienbaum but was driven back by machine gun fire.

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8.

Three delegates that the Oranienbam air squadron had sent to Kronstadt rebellion were arrested by Cheka as they returned to the city.

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Zinoviev's Petrograd Defense Committee airdropped a leaflet over Kronstadt accusing the rebellion of being orchestrated by the White Army, ordering their surrender, and threatening that those who resisted would be "shot like partridges".

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Kronstadt rebellion, meanwhile, reinforced its defenses with 2,000 civilian recruits atop the 13,000-man garrison.

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11.

Kronstadt rebellion had excellent defenses between this weaponry and the protection of vast distances of open ice.

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12.

Kronstadt rebellion rebels had their difficulties, lacking the ammunition, winter clothing, food reserves, and fuel to fend off a prolonged siege.

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13.

Series of minor skirmishes against Kronstadt rebellion took place in the days following the failed opening salvo.

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14.

Kronstadt rebellion's sailors felt this feeling of betrayal long after the city fell.

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15.

Later that evening, the northern cadets captured the Kronstadt rebellion headquarters, taking prisoners, and met the southern forces in the center of town.

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16.

Dybenko, a Bolshevik officer in the Kronstadt rebellion assault, was given full power to purge dissent as the Kronstadt rebellion Fort's new commander.

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17.

Lenin used Kronstadt rebellion to consolidate the Bolsheviks' power and dictatorial rule.

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18.

Kronstadt rebellion was the major last Russian buntarstvo—the rural, traditional, spontaneous, preindustrial uprisings.

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19.

Kronstadt rebellion was unprepared, ill-timed, and outmatched against a government that had just won a civil war of greater magnitude.

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20.

Kronstadt rebellion, they feared, might ignite the Russian mainland or become the springboard for another anti-Soviet invasion.

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21.

The Kronstadt rebellion events are idealized in early Soviet period historiography as an example of "legitimate" popular expression.

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