West Siberian rebellion

West Siberian rebellion
DateJanuary 31, 1921 - December 1922
Location
Result

Green armies tactical victory

Uprising suppressed
Belligerents
 Russian Soviet Socialist Republic Green armies
Commanders and leaders
Ivan Smirnov
Vasily Shorin
Ivan Pavlunovsky
Makar Vasiliev
A. S. Korotkov †
Vasily Zheltovsky
Stepan Danilov
Vladimir Rodin †
Strength
c. 100,000

The West Siberian rebellion was the largest of the Russian peasant uprisings against the nascent Bolshevik state. It began in early 1921 and was defeated at the end of 1922, due in part to the brutal repression of the militarily superior Red Army, and the famine that the region suffered.


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