Recap: The Kronstadt Revolt

Kronstadt was a ​ (a)   located in the ​Gulf of Finland , ​ (b)   from ​ (c)   . The ​ (d)   who lived there supported the Bolsheviks, but were also ​ (e)   .

• naval base
• 25 kms
• Petrograd
• sailors
• anarchist
• garrison base
• 250 kms
• Moscow
• bourgeois

Which was NOT a cause of the Kronstadt Revolt?

• Increasing centralised power of the Bolsheviks

• Continuation of grain requisitioning and worsening of living conditions (food prices etc.)

• Counter-revolution; many sailors were conservative and/or tsarist supports

• Horrendous working conditions for the proletariat and closure of several factories

Select the correct quote AND author about the Kronstadt Sailors.

• Trotsky: The sailors were "the reddest of the red, the pride and glory of the revolution."

• Lenin: "The reddest there ever was; no one can take that away from them."

• Trotsky: "There will always be a place for the sailors of Kronstadt in the Soviet."

• Lenin: "The support of the Kronstadt sailors for our cause has been instrumental to red victory!"

How did Trotsky & the Red Army respond to the Kronstadt Revolt?

• They immediately crushed the revolt and imprisoned & executed thousands of sailors

• Increased grain requisitioning and declaring martial law in Kronstadt

• Negotiating with the Kronstadt sailors

• Resigning from Sovnarkom and dismantling the Bolshevik Central Committee

Select the correct statistics for the outcome of the Kronstadt Revolt.

• 10,000 Red Army soldiers killed in battle

• 5000 sailors killed in battle

• 2300 sailors executed by the Cheka

• 6459 sailors sent to gulags