Kronstadt Rebellion
The Kronstadt rebellion was led by (, 95) Social-Revolutionary Stepan Petrichenko. He initiated the change from a protest to an open rebellion by spreading a false rumor that the Bolsheviks were coming to arrest everyone(, 85). The rebellions called for free elections to regional councils (soviets) and an end to grain requisitioning. The rebellion was supported by Socialist Revolutionaries, Mensheviks, dissident Communists, and anarchists.
The Kronstadt rebels allowed a known White agent, the former tsarist naval officer Baron P. V. Vilken and agent of White general Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, to come to the island during the mutiny disguised as a Red Cross worker and make agreements to secure aid for the rebellion (, 122). The Bolsheviks pointed to the danger of the Whites supporting the rebellion or using it as an opportunity to invade and suppressed it.
Read more about this topic: Left-wing Uprisings Against The Bolsheviks, Anarchist Attacks
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