Kronstadt
Articles about the 1921 mutiny and rebellion of sailors and workers on the Kronstadt naval base against the authoritarianism of the new Russian Bolshevik government.
Zheleznyakov, Nikolai Grigorievich (1893-1918/1919)
A short biography of Nikolai, the far less well known brother of the anarchist Anatoli Zheleznyakov.
The other Zheleznyakov
Lamanov, Anatoli Nikolaevich 1889-1921
A short biography of Anatoli Lamanov, the voice and ideologist of the Kronstadt Revolt
Anatoli Lamanov was born on July 3rd 1889. His father was Lieutenant Colonel Nikolai P.
The Kronstadt commune 1921 - The Red Menace
The Red Menace's analysis of the Kronstadt rebellion.
‘The Workers’ and Peasants’ Government has decreed that Kronstadt and the rebelling ships must immediately submit to the authority of the Soviet Republic. I therefore order all who have raised their hands against the socialist fatherland to lay down their arms at once. Recalcitrants are to be disarmed and turned over to the Soviet authorities.
Yarchuk, Efim, 1882 or 1886-1937
A short biography of Efim Yarchuk, who played an important role in the rebellious town of Kronstadt.
Yarchuk, Efim Zakharovich aka Khaim Zakharev - Also rendered as Yarchook, Yartchuk, Iarchuk etc.
“a man who enjoyed exceptional influence among the sailors and workers and whose idealism and devotion are matters of historic record” - My Disillusionment in Russia. Emma Goldman
The Truth about Kronstadt
A translation of Pravda o Kronshtadte, produced by SRs shortly after the event in 1921.
This version is taken from: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mhuey/HOME.html Copyright © 1992, 1998 by Scott Zenkatsu Parker.
The author permits the unlimited duplication, transmission, and distribution of this text with the proper citations for academic, educational, and non-commercial use only.
1921: Kronstadt: Proletarian spin-off of the Russian Revolution - Cajo Brendel
Cajo Brendel's pamphlet on the Kronstadt rebellion
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Stalinism’s loyal opposition - The counter-revolutionary politics of Trotsky
This article was originally written to refute lies about the history of 20th century revolutionary movements peddled by the Trotskyists of the Spartacus League.
This article was originally written to refute lies about the history of 20th century revolutionary movements peddled by the comically obnoxious Trotskyoids of the Spartacus League, in their newspaper Workers Vanguard (sic).
Mett, Ida, 1901-1973
A short biography Ida Mett, Russian anarchist and author of The Kronstadt Commune about the uprising against the new Bolshevik dictatorship following the Russian Revolution.
Ida Mett
Born Ida Gilman, July 1901 - Smorgon’, Russia, died 27 June 1973 - Paris, France
1921: The Kronstadt rebellion
The history of the rising of the naval town of Kronstadt in Russia by workers and sailors supporting the original aims of the 1917 Revolution against the new Bolshevik dictatorship. The rebellion was crushed by Red Army troops under Trotsky's command.
The Kronstadt rebellion took place in the first weeks of March, 1921. Kronstadt was (and is) a naval fortress on an island in the Gulf of Finland. Traditionally, it has served as the base of the Russian Baltic Fleet and to guard the approaches to the city of St. Petersburg (which during the first world war was re-named Petrograd, then later Leningrad, and is now St.
The Kronstadt Uprising of 1921 - Lynne Thorndycraft
The story of the Kronstadt revolt, compactly told, a decisive moment in the Bolshevik counter-revolution.
Since this pamphlet was written Israel Getzler's book Kronstadt 1917-1921: The Fate of a Soviet Democracy, Cambridge University Press, 1983, has appeared.
