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Kronstadt, 1921
By (Author) Paul Avrich
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
947.45
Hardback
288
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
567g
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