When much of the conventional idea of the event has been thrown into doubt even by anarchist and libcom historians like Avrich and later documents revealed, it really cannot be parroted so blatantly. It's not a 'people's' calendar if it is to the exclusion of the entire rest of the Soviet workers and their stance. But make sure to counter balance stuff like this instead of using a split of leftcom and reactionary sources.

So just keep in mind when these where writtenДЄnother good rundown from much much later and after the archives got opened and confirmed the 'tankie' myths.Д¬over the subject all you want, that's fine. I don't care to litigate the arguments over the spanish civil war and anarchism, those really have no bearing on Kronstadt itself.

For his part, Lenin regarded the episode as a critical challenge to the revolution, calling Kronstadt 'undoubtedly more dangerous than Denikin, Yudenich, and Kolchak combined'.ДЇar be it for me to go with Trotsky, but he was right ДЄlso the work of a leftist based on the info known at the time challenging the framing of the rebellion. 8,000 Kronstadt refugees crossed into Finland within a day of Kronstadt's fall, sabotaging the defenses as they left.ДЄnarchists see the Kronstadt Rebellion as a righteous rebellion against an increasingly repressive Soviet state, while Bolsheviks view it as counter-revolutionary and petty bourgeois in character. On March 16th, a Bolshevik force of 50,000 met and defeated the 15,000 rebels, seizing control of the island. On March 7th, the Bolshevik government began attacking the island with small land forces and aerial bombardment, however little progress was made. The Bolsheviks accused the Kronstadt rebels as being 'counter-revolutionary' and moved to crush the rebellion by force. On March 2nd, a Provisional Revolutionary Committee was formed, demanding a 'third revolution' to restore the revolutionary values Kronstadt supporters felt the Bolsheviks had betrayed. On February 28th, in reaction to government suppression of protests in Petrograd, the sailors drafted a set of fifteen demands, including free elections, freedom of assembly for peasant and labor organizations, and the allowance of trade. Protests and civil unrest were happening throughout Russia, and the sailors in Kronstadt had actually deposed their commander Raskolnikov in late January. The rebellion took place in the context of a difficult winter in which fuel and food became scarce. It was also the last major revolt against the Bolshevik government on Russian territory during the civil war. The uprising consisted of sailors, soldiers, and civilians from a variety of political persuasions. On this day in 1921, around 15,000 people assembled in the city of Kronstadt, demanding free elections, an end to censorship, and freedom of trade, marking the beginning of the Kronstadt Rebellion against the Bolshevik government.

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