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Tambov Rebellion

Tambov Rebellion
Part of the Russian Civil War
Date19 August 1920 – mid 1922
Location
Tambov Governorate, Russian SFSR
52°30′N 41°48′E / 52.5°N 41.8°E / 52.5; 41.8
Result Bolshevik victory
Belligerents

Green armies

Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Soviet Russia
Commanders and leaders
Alexander Antonov †
Peter Tokmakov †
Ivan Ishin Executed		 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Mikhail Tukhachevsky
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic V. Antonov-Ovseyenko
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Alexander Schlichter
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Ieronim Uborevich
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Grigory Kotovsky
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Sergey Kamenev
Strength
Probably 20,000 regular and 20,000 militiamen[3]
14,000 (August 1920)[4]
50,000 (October 1920)[5]
40,000[6] – 70,000[7] (February 1921)
1,000 (September 1921)[6]		 5,000 (November 1920)[5]
50,000[8] – 100,000[9] (March 1921)[10]
Casualties and losses
50,000 civilians interned in camps[11]
15,000 dead[2][page needed]

The Tambov Rebellion of 1920–1922 was one of the largest and best-organized peasant rebellions challenging the Bolshevik government during the Russian Civil War.[12] The uprising took place in the territories of the modern Tambov Oblast and part of the Voronezh Oblast, less than 500 kilometres (300 mi) southeast of Moscow.

In Soviet historiography, the rebellion was referred to as the Antonovschina ("Antonov's mutiny"), so named after Alexander Antonov, a former official of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, who opposed the government of the Bolsheviks. It began in August 1920 with resistance to the forced confiscation of grain and developed into a guerrilla war against the Red Army, Cheka units and the Soviet Russian authorities. The bulk of the peasant army was destroyed by large Red Army reinforcements using chemical weapons in the summer of 1921;[9] smaller groups continued resistance until the following year. It is estimated that around 100,000 people were arrested and around 15,000 killed during the suppression of the uprising.

The movement was later portrayed by the Soviets as anarchical banditry, similar to other left-wing anti-Bolshevik movements that opposed them during this period.

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  2. ^ a b Sennikov, Boris V. (2004). Тамбовское восстание 1918−1921 гг. и раскрестьянивание России 1929−1933гг [Tambov rebellion and liquidation of peasants in Russia] (in Russian). Moscow: Posev. ISBN 5-85824-152-2. OCLC 828507211. Archived from the original on 2019-03-30. Retrieved 2015-02-27.
  3. ^ Hosking 1993, p. 78; Mayer 2002, p. 392.
  4. ^ Powell 2007, p. 219; Werth 1999, p. 131.
  5. ^ a b Powell 2007, p. 219; Werth 1999, p. 132.
  6. ^ a b Werth 1999, p. 139.
  7. ^ Waller 2012, p. 194.
  8. ^ Mayer 2002, p. 392.
  9. ^ a b Figes 1997, p. 768.
  10. ^ Waller 2012, p. 115; Werth 1999, pp. 132, 138.
  11. ^ Figes 1997, p. 768; Werth 1999, p. 139.
  12. ^ Conquest 1986, pp. 51–53; Werth 1999, p. 108.

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