Kronstadt Rebellion

Kronstadt rebellion

Part of the left-wing uprisings against the Bolsheviks and the Russian Civil War

Date	March 7–17, 1921
Location	Kronstadt, Kotlin Island, Russian SFSR
Result	Bolshevik victory Uprising suppressed

Belligerents

Soviet Baltic Fleet sailors

Armed citizens of Kronstadt

Russian SFSR

Red Army

Commanders and leaders

Stepan Petrichenko

Mikhail Tukhachevsky

Leon Trotsky

Strength

c. first 11,000, second assault: 17,961

c. first assault: 10,073, second assault: 25,000 to 30,000

Casualties and losses

~1,000 killed in battle and 1,200 to 2,168 executed

Second assault: 527–1,412; a much higher number if the first assault is included.

Soviet Baltic Fleet sailors

Russian SFSR

The Kronstadt rebellion (Russian: Кронштадтское восстание, tr. Kronshtadtskoye vosstaniye) was a major unsuccessful uprising against the Bolsheviks in March 1921, during the later years of the Russian Civil War. Led by Stepan Petrichenko and consisting of Russian sailors, soldiers, and civilians, the rebellion was one of the reasons for Vladimir Lenin's and the Communist Party's decision to loosen its control of the Russian economy by implementing the New Economic Policy (NEP).

The rebellion originated in Kronstadt, a naval fortress on Kotlin Island in the Gulf of Finland that served as the base of the Russian Baltic Fleet and as a guardpost for the approaches to Petrograd, 55 kilometres (34 mi) away. The rebellion was crushed by the Red Army after a 12-day military campaign, resulting in several thousand deaths.

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