Tambov Rebellion

The Tambov Rebellion of 1920–1921 was one of the largest and best-organized peasant rebellions against the Bolshevik regime during the Russian Civil War . The uprising took place in the territories of the modern Tambov Oblast and a part of Voronezh Oblast, less than 300 miles southeast of Moscow. The leader of the rebellion was an officer of the Russian Imperial Army, the owner of a full set of the Order of St. George, P.M. Tokmakov. In Soviet hi... more

The Tambov Rebellion of 1920–1921 was one of the largest and best-organized peasant rebellions against the Bolshevik regime during the Russian Civil War . The uprising took place in the territories of the modern Tambov Oblast and a part of Voronezh Oblast, less than 300 miles southeast of Moscow. The leader of the rebellion was an officer of the Russian Imperial Army, the owner of a full set of the Order of St. George, P.M. Tokmakov. In Soviet history the rebellion was wrongfully named as the Antonov's mutiny or Antonovschina, although Alexander Antonov, the former official of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party, was only a chief of staff of one of the rebel armies. The movement was also portrayed simply as some sort of anarchial banditism as the numerous other similar anti-Soviet movements in the former Russian Empire. The rebellion was caused by the forceful confiscation of grain by the Bolshevik authorities (policy known as prodrazvyorstka). In 1920 the requisitions were increased... less