Rebel Kronstadt. 1905-1917-1921

“Youth drove us to a saber hike, / We were thrown by youth / on the Kronstadt ice ... "The Kronstadt uprising of 1921 became one of the most dramatic episodes of the Great Russian Revolution. In the USSR, it was officially believed that this is a “counter -revolutionary adventure prepared by the White Guards and the imperialists", and now the story of the "Kronstadt rebellion" has overgrown with speculation and legends. Why, starting with anti-government uprisings in 1905 and in February 1917, becoming the "shock force of the revolution" in October 17th and on the fronts of the Civil War, the Baltic sailors raised the rebellion? How did it happen that the sailors - "beauty and pride of the revolution", on their bayonets led by the Bolsheviks to power, rebelled against them? Was this a rebellion of the people against the Bolshevik tyranny? What are the true scale of repression against Kronstadtsy?
This book for the first time without ideological stamps, on the basis of previously unknown archival documents, objectively shows the course of the Kronstadt uprising and its suppression, reveals the causes of its occurrence and defeat of the rebels