Crisis and Reform 1921
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- Crisis and Reform (1921)
- Crises 1921
- Rebellion among peasants, workers' strikes - extent of opposition to government
- Popular Unrest
- Civil War ruined Russia's economy; droughts in 1920 &1921
- Aleksandr Antonov - peasant rebellion against communist grain requisitioning and Cheka brutality
- 50,000 anti communist fighters by Jan 1921
- March 1921- Peasant attacks on government grain stores
- Early 1921- strikes against policies in major cities
- Sailors at Konstadt horrified by suppression so rebelled and demanded following reforms:
- Free and fair elections
- Release of Mensheviks, SR's, anarchist political prisoners
- Restoration of freedom of speech and press
- Abolition of Cheka
- End to War Communism
- Mid March - Red Army crushed Konstradt uprising
- May - suppressed rebellion by sending 100,000 to labour camps
- One-Party State
- During Civil War - opposition parties persecuted by Cheka
- Ones who survived played a key role in strikes of early 1921
- Feb 1921 - Cheka to destroy opposition political parties
- End of Feb 1921- All Mensheviks in Petrograd
- Similar steps towards SR's - 22 leading put on trial, imprisoned or sent to exile
- 1921 & 1922 - consolidated dominance of Russia by crushing opposition
- During Civil War - opposition parties persecuted by Cheka
- The 1921 Party Congress
- Workers and peasants dissatisfied with regime
- Lenin pushed through reforms in 1921 Party Congress
- New Economic Policy - liberalised economy
- Opposition: Workers' Opposition, Democratic Centralists
- Resolution: 'On Party Unity'
- Ban on factions decisions
- Crises 1921
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