1. Peasant Rebellion Revision1
Peasant Rebellion Revision

2. Background Information.2
Background Information.
The peasant rebellion took place more towards the end of the Russian Civil War when War Communism was introduced.
During War Communism, a law was sent out about the peasant’s surplus being state property.
Armed forces were sent out to gather the surplus from the peasants. If there was no surplus, they were beaten until it was produced.
Due to all of this, we start to see peasant rebellions/peasant uprisings.

3. How did the peasants go about with their rebellion?3
How did the peasants go about with their rebellion?
The peasants were furious with the Bolsheviks because they took away the markets that helped the peasants sell their surplus. Due to this, the peasants stopped producing the surplus for they could not sell it.
The peasants referred to their revolts as “revolutions.”
There are stories of the brigades sent out to collect the grain from the peasants and the peasants would murder them, cut open their stomachs, pile grain in them and lay them out at the side of the roads as an example and a warning to make the people not come after them.
One peasant complained to a foreign journalist – “The freedom we were given by the revolution was taken from us by the new regime.( The Bolsheviks.) Life in the village is now like it was under the Tsar.”
This is when we start to see that the Communists regime was a lot like the Tsarist regime.