To secure freedom of assembly, freedom of labor unions and of peasant organizations.ĥ. To grant liberty of speech and of press to the workers and peasants, to the anarchists and the left socialist parties.ģ. Seeing that the present Soviets do not express the wishes of the workers and peasants, to organize immediately re-elections to the Soviets with secret vote, and with care to organize free electoral propaganda for all workers and peasants.Ģ. At a meeting attended by 16,000 persons on March 1, a resolution was adopted which announced the demands of the insurrectionists : ![]() ![]() The Kronstadt uprising, which started in late February 1921 and lasted until March 17, was a distinctly leftist but at the same time anti-Communist movement. Now, 3 years later, however, they turned against the Communist regime. The unrest soon spread to the fortress of Kronstadt, with its thousands of troops the role played by the Kronstadt sailors in the revolution - Trotsky had called them the "pride and glory of the Revolution" - was fresh in the memory of the people and their loyalty was beyond doubt. Though nonparty and nonpolitical, the sentiment behind the movement - the first large popular movement since 1918, at least in the former capital - was obviously anti-Communist. ![]() The Trubochnyi plant took the lead in the political movement against Soviet power. On February 24 strikes broke out at the Trubochnyi, Laferm, Patronnyi, and Baltiiskii plants. Beginning on February 22, meetings took place in industrial plants all over the city. In the latter part of February 1921 serious unrest, which grew into spontaneous strikes, developed among the workers of Petrograd.
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