Kronstadt rebellion

The Kronstadt rebellion was a left-wing revolt which occurred in Russia from 7–17 March 1921. It was carried out by Communists who did not like the way the Bolsheviks made the Workers' Councils do what the new Russian state, the RSFSR told them to do.

Kronstadt Rebellion Media

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  Prior to 1917, Kronstadt sailors revolted in 1905 (depicted) and 1906

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  The crew of the Petropavlovsk during the March 1917 Baltic Fleet riot of March 1917

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  The resolution taken by the Kronstadt seamen, containing demands such as the election of free soviets and freedom of speech and press

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  Stepan Petrichenko, anarchist sailor who chaired the Provisional Revolutionary Committee during the Kronstadt revolt

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  The Bolshevik Party's 10th Congress (delegates pictured) overlapped with the Kronstadt rebellion

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  Petrichenko and other Kronstadt rebels in Finnish exile

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  Captured Kronstadt sailors summarily executed.

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  Monument to the Victims of Revolutions, containing an eternal flame, in Kronstadt's Anchor Square, with the Naval Cathedral in the background