West Siberian rebellion
West Siberian rebellion | |||||
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Belligerents | |||||
Russian Soviet Socialist Republic | Green armies | ||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||
Ivan Smirnov Vasily Shorin Ivan Pavlunovsky Makar Vasiliev |
A. S. Korotkov † Vasily Zheltovsky † Stepan Danilov Vladimir Rodin † | ||||
Strength | |||||
c. 100,000 |
The West Siberian rebellion was the largest of the
Background
At the beginning of the 20th century, the Russian peasantry experienced two wars against the Russian state, both the product of revolutions and both ended with the imposition of state power: 1905–1907 and 1917–1922.[1]
Rebellions in Central and Eastern Siberia against whites
The rebellious peasants were always enemies of the whites.
The guerrillas began shortly after the formation of their government, on August 31, 1918, in the rural areas near
With its rear weakened by the wear and tear of the guerrillas[6] and being forced to distract its detachments in defending themselves against the peasantry,[10] the white regime could not stop the advance of 200,000 Bolsheviks,[11] who, on the other hand, knew how to add local partisans to their forces wherever they advanced.[12][13] At the end of 1919, when the Siberian regime was totally defeated and disintegrated,[10] the autonomous bands from Central Siberia to Amur Oblast numbered more than 100,000 combatants.[6][13][10][n. 1]
Fall of Kolchak and Bolshevik advance
When his forces withdrew in 1920, Kolchak faced numerous mutinies that joined the guerrillas, leaving his loyal few completely alone and condemned.
Between the late 1920s and early 1921, with the foreseeable defeat of the
Rebellion
On January 31, 1921, a small revolt broke out in the village of Chelnokovskom, in the
Although sources vary the total number of peasants in arms from 30,000 to 150,000.
The desperate courage of these rebels led to a terrible campaign of repression by the Cheka.[26] The President of the Party in Siberia, Ivan Smirnov, estimated that up to March 12, 1921, 7,000 peasants had been murdered in the Petropavl region alone and another 15,000 in Ishim.[33] In the town of Aromashevo, between April 28 and May 1, the Red troops faced 10,000 peasants; 700 Greens died in combat, many drowned in rivers when they fled, and 5,700 were captured with many weapons and loot. For another two days the greens were endlessly hunted. The victory allowed the Reds to regain control of the north of Ishim.[34] Indeed, with these actions, together with the establishment of permanent garrisons, revolutionary committees and an espionage network, the capture of several leaders - granting amnesties in exchange for handing over former comrades, mass executions, taking hostages of family members, and artillery bombardments of entire villages, the major operations ended and the rebels turned to guerrilla warfare. In December 1922 reports stated that "banditry" had all but disappeared.[35]
End
The abandonment of the
See also
- Russian Civil War
- Green armies
- Tambov Rebellion
- Makhnovshchina
- Pitchfork uprising
- Kazym rebellion
- Peasant rebellion of Sorokino
References
- ^ a b Safonov 1998.
- ^ Figes 1996, pp. 742, 823.
- ^ Figes 1996, pp. 620, 628, 780.
- ^ Werth 1999, p. 100.
- ^ Figes 1996, p. 716.
- ^ a b c Bullock 2012, p. 33.
- ^ Figes 1996, p. 717.
- ^ Figes 1996, p. 718.
- ^ Figes 1996, pp. 717, 719.
- ^ a b c Poliakov 1987, p. 161.
- ^ McGuire Mohr 2012, p. 162.
- ^ a b Naumov 2006, p. 174.
- ^ a b Nenarokov 1968, p. 138.
- ^ Heaton 2008, p. 244.
- ^ Levine 2010, p. xxi.
- ^ Stackelberg 2002, p. 211.
- ^ Adams 2008, p. 23.
- ^ Figes 1996, p. 719.
- ^ Naumov 2006, p. 173.
- ^ a b c Figes 1996, p. 819.
- ^ a b c Naumov 2006, p. 176.
- ^ a b Shishkin 2001, p. 137.
- ^ a b Shulpyakov 2004, p. 224.
- ^ Naumov 2006, pp. 174–175.
- ^ Naumov 2006, p. 175.
- ^ a b Avrich 2014, p. 15.
- ^ a b Conquest 1987, p. 51.
- ^ a b Forsyth 1994, p. 235.
- ^ a b Hosking 1993, p. 77.
- ^ a b Phillips 2000, p. 56.
- ^ a b Roberts & LaFollette 1990, p. 78.
- ^ Brovkin 2015, p. 380.
- ^ Klimin 2004, p. 333.
- ^ Bouchard 2003, p. 38.
- ^ Heath, Nick (October 4, 2011). "The West Siberian uprising, 1921-1922". Libcom.org. Retrieved April 7, 2017.
- ^ Figes 1996, p. 835.
- ^ Figes 1996, pp. 835–836.
- ^ Werth 1999, p. 118.
- ^ Smith 2002, p. 24.
- ^ Misiunas & Taagepera 1983, p. 84.
- ^ Werth 1999, p. 263.
Notes
- Holocaust.[15]
Similar movements were experienced in other countries under German occupation: 200,000 in France,[16] 200,000 in Italy and 300,000 in Yugoslavia.[17] - Baltics lasted from 1945 until 1952 and had 100,000 Lithuanian, 40,000 Latvian and 30,000 Estonian partisans hidden in the forests.[40] There was also the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, active until 1949.[41]
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