Livny Uprising

Livny Uprising
Part of Russian Civil War
Photo of a stand in the Livensky History Museum, dedicated to the events of the Livny Uprising, taken in 1936
Date August 1918 Location Livny, Oryol Oblast Result Bolshevik victory
Belligerents
Russian Soviet Socialist Republic	Insurgents
Commanders and leaders
Ivan Selitrennikov  † Konstantin Kogan  † Dmitry Prikazchikov Mikhail Burov	V. Mokashov  † J. Chernsky  † I. Fursov  † Ivan Klyopov
Units involved
	c. 10,000
Casualties and losses
c. 70 deaths	c. 300 deaths

The Livny Uprising in August 1918 was one of the first peasant insurrections to arise against the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic.

The uprising, in which about 10 thousand people took part,^[1] was caused by the peasants' rejection of the policy of war communism and requisitioning by the Bolsheviks, and the intelligentsia's rejection of the complete transfer of power into the hands of the Bolsheviks. The culmination of the peasant uprising was the capture of the town of Livny by the rebels, which they held for less than two days. The uprising was suppressed with the help of reinforcements sent from Oryol.^[2]