In the pre-revolutionary period, Russia experienced significant difficulties with food.In 1915, in August, the government set a firm price of grain procurement.Already in 1916, in December, the crisis of forming the government has developed inventories forced to start schedule of bread.Farms were not able to master it.In Tambov province demanded reducing the size of the deliveries.
seized from peasants bread violent means led to an uprising in Kozlov district in 1917, in September.The discontent of peasants spread rapidly.Within a short period it was burned over a hundred landowners' estates.Government organizations tried unsuccessfully to stop the "redistribution".
peasants suffered greatly during the years of destructive war.The civil war, intervention, poor harvests have caused enormous damage to agriculture.The volume of production in the country fell by seven times.Among the population intensified hunger.In these circumstances, the state introduced a monopoly on the sale of bread and, subsequently, requisitioning.
peasants showed resistance to government measures.Mass forms of discontent has been a sharp decrease in "tillage".Fields sown exactly as much as needed for personal use.The country has sharply reduced food resources.In 1920, the situation became catastrophic when many areas struck by drought.In some areas of the Tambov province, people were in a hopeless situation, on the brink of survival.The state did not reduce the level of the surplus.
peasants were unhappy not only exorbitant demands of the government, but also by how to dispose of food taken away from them.There was not enough space for the storage of grain wagons to send.Grain rots, it was distilled to brew, share.Ultimately, discontent resulted in the insurgency.Antonovskoe uprising began.
leader of the movement was SR.In addition, Antonov served as assistant chief of police in Tambov, and later the police chief in the district Kirsanovsky.
Antonov Revolt at first took the form of sporadic and partisan.However, the movement gradually spread to other parish.
Antonovskoe uprising began from mid-1920.Then the village of Kamenka and Khitrova refused to give bread, then disarmed the requisition.
Antonovskoe uprising spread with incredible speed.By 1921, the movement reached the highest magnitude, spread to neighboring districts in the Saratov and Voronezh province.In January of this year in the Tambov province came Lunacharsky and Bukharin.Analyzing the situation, they concluded that Antonovskoe uprising is unquestionable threat to the existence of the Soviet system.Under these circumstances, the Politburo decides to adopt an appeal to the Tambov peasants.February 9 announced the abolition of the surplus in the province.
At the end of April, it was decided to eliminate gangs Antonov.It should be noted that by February 21 of the year in the insurgency consisted of 40 thousand soldiers.Subsequently, the number of people began to decline.This is mainly due to the abolition of the surplus, as well as the beginning of the decisive actions of the Red Army.By the summer of 1921 the main forces were defeated by Antonov.In late July, he gave the final order.According to a recent order of the combat units were asked to split up and hide in the woods or to disperse.
In Russia, all revolutions and uprisings were peasants.When the people were driven to despair, they made life unbearable, the case of social explosion.Peasant uprisings were always accompanied by bloodshed.
