Kronstadt rebellion
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The Kronstadt rebellion was a 1921 insurrection of Soviet sailors, naval infantry, and civilians against the Bolshevik government in the Russian port city of Kronstadt. Located on Kotlin Island in the
Loyalist Red Army soldiers on the frozen Gulf of Finland attacking the island fortress of Kronstadt
Prior to 1917, Kronstadt sailors revolted in 1905 (depicted) and 1906
The crew of the Petropavlovsk during the March 1917 Baltic Fleet riot of March 1917
The resolution taken by the Kronstadt seamen, containing demands such as the election of free soviets and freedom of speech and press
Leon Trotsky
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Lev Davidovich Trotsky, better known as Leon Trotsky, was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, and political theorist. He was a key figure in the 1905 Revolution, the October Revolution of 1917
Kronstadt rebellion
…against Bolshevik rule on Russian territory during the Russian Civil War. Disappointed in the direction of the Bolshevik government, the rebels—whom Leon Trotsky himself had praised earlier as the "adornment and pride of the revolution"—demanded a series of reforms: reduction in Bolshevik power, newly elected…
Trotsky in 1918
Trotsky in 1888
Trotsky in 1897
Trotsky's first wife Aleksandra Sokolovskaya (centre) with her brother (left), Trotsky (right), and Dr G. A. Ziv (bottom) in 1897