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Kronstadt, 1921
By (Author) Paul Avrich
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
947.45
Paperback
288
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
397g
In March 1921 the sailors of Kronstadt, the naval fortress in the Gulf of Finland, rose in revolt against the Bolshevik government, which they themselves had helped into power. Under the slogan of Ofree soviets," they established a revolutionary commune that survived for sixteen days, until an army came across the ice to crush it. After a savage st