West Siberian rebellion | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Russian Soviet Socialist Republic | Green armies | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Ivan Smirnov Vasily Shorin Ivan Pavlunovsky Makar Vasiliev |
A. S. Korotkov † Vasily Zheltovsky † Stepan Danilov Vladimir Rodin † | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
c. 100,000 |
The West Siberian rebellion was the largest of the Russian peasant uprisings against the nascent Bolshevik state. It began in early 1921 and was defeated at the end of 1922, due in part to the brutal repression of the militarily superior Red Army, and the famine that the region suffered.