• The Kronstadt rebellion was a 1921 insurrection of Soviet sailors, naval infantry, and civilians against the Bolshevik government in the Russian port city of Kronstadt.
  • WITH MAP OF KRONSTADTANDA FACSIMILE PAGE OF THE KRONSTADT IZVESTIA. I. LABOR DISTURBANCES IN PETROGRAD. It was early in 1921.
  • Kronstadt had hoped that the rebellion soon spread to Petrograd, and waited for support from the mainland.
  • The Workers and Peasants Government has decreed that the Kronstadt and the rebellious ships must immediately submit to the authority of the Soviet...
  • It was a rude shock to the Bolsheviks when the red sailors of Kronstadt went into open rebellion in March 1921.
  • The Kronstadt Rebellion was significant in one significant way. The Bolsheviks, who were the sworn protectors of the revolution, had all of a sudden forgotten about...
  • Nevertheless, by dramatically demonstrating popular dissatisfaction with the Communists’ policies, the rebellion forced the party to adopt the New Economic Policy...
  • Note: This page is duplicated in Anarchy in the Russian Revolution. In 1921, the sailors, soldiers and workers of Russia's Kronstadt naval fortress proclaimed...
  • The Kronstadt rebellion took place in the first weeks of March 1921. Proclaimed by Trotsky himself as being the "pride and glory of the Russian Revolution...