title: Kronstadt Rebellion
abstract: 喀琅施塔得叛乱'Third revolution' or 'counterrevolutionary mutiny' -these are the two extremes between which verdicts on the kr, which shook Soviet Russia from 1 to 18 March 1921, are situated.The symptom of a comprehensive crisis whose causes lay in the disruption Russia had suffered during seven years of war and civil war, as well as in the system of war communism practised by the Soviet government, the kr posed an acute threat to the power of the rcp(b), being led by the sailors of Kronstadt, the 'pr