Editing Tambov Rebellion (section)

{{short description|1920–1921 peasant revolt in the Russian Civil War}}
{{Use shortened footnotes|date=June 2023}}
{{Infobox military conflict
| image             = Tambov Rebellion.png
| image_size        = 300px
| caption           =
| conflict          = Tambov Rebellion
| partof            = the [[Russian Civil War]]
| place             = [[Tambov Governorate]], [[Russian SFSR]]
| coordinates       = {{Coord|52.5|N|41.8|E|type:event_region:RU-TAM|display=inline,title}}
| date              = 19 August 1920 – mid 1922
| result            = [[Bolshevik]] victory
| combatant1        =
[[Green armies]]
* {{flagicon|Russia}} {{ill|Republic of the Tambov Partisan Region|ru|Республика Тамбовского партизанского края}}<ref name="rep">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=38ulEAAAQBAJ | isbn=978-1-3981-0545-4 | title=When Russia Did Democracy: From St Vladimir to Tsar Putin | date=15 January 2023 | publisher=Amberley Publishing Limited }}</ref><ref name="Sennikov"/>
| combatant2        = {{flagicon|Russian SFSR|1918}} [[Soviet Russia]]
| commander1        = {{nowrap|{{flagicon|Russia}} [[Alexander Antonov (politician)|Alexander Antonov]]{{KIA}}<br />{{flagicon|Russia}} {{ill|Peter Tokmakov|ru|Токмаков, Пётр Михайлович}}{{KIA}}<br />{{flagicon|Russia}} {{ill|Ivan Ishin|ru|Ишин, Иван Егорович}}{{executed}}}}
| commander2        = {{nowrap|{{flagicon|Russian SFSR|1918}} [[Mikhail Tukhachevsky]]<br />{{flagicon|Russian SFSR|1918}} [[Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko|V. Antonov-Ovseyenko]]<br />{{flagicon|Russian SFSR|1918}} [[Alexander Schlichter]]<br />{{flagicon|Russian SFSR|1918}} [[Ieronim Uborevich]]<br />{{flagicon|Russian SFSR|1918}} [[Grigory Kotovsky]]<br />{{flagicon|Russian SFSR|1918}} [[Sergey Kamenev]]}}
| strength1         = Probably 20,000 regular and 20,000 militiamen{{Sfnm|1a1=Hosking|1y=1993|1p=78|2a1=Mayer|2y=2002|2p=392}}<hr> 14,000 <small>(August 1920)</small>{{Sfnm|1a1=Powell|1y=2007|1p=219|2a1=Werth|2y=1999|2p=131}}<br />50,000 <small>(October 1920)</small>{{Sfnm|1a1=Powell|1y=2007|1p=219|2a1=Werth|2y=1999|2p=132}}<br />40,000{{sfn|Werth|1999|p=139}} – 70,000{{Sfn|Waller|2012|p=194}} <small>(February 1921)</small><br />1,000 <small>(September 1921)</small>{{sfn|Werth|1999|p=139}}
| strength2         = 5,000 <small>(November 1920)</small>{{Sfnm|1a1=Powell|1y=2007|1p=219|2a1=Werth|2y=1999|2p=132}}<br />50,000{{Sfn|Mayer|2002|p=392}} – 100,000{{Sfn|Figes|1997|p=768}} <small>(March 1921)</small>{{Sfnm|1a1=Waller|1y=2012|1p=115|2a1=Werth|2y=1999|2pp=132, 138}}
| casualties3       = 50,000 civilians interned in camps{{sfnm|1a1=Figes|1y=1997|1p=768|2a1=Werth|2y=1999|2p=139}}<br />15,000 dead<ref name="Sennikov">{{cite book |last=Sennikov |first=Boris V. |year=2004 |url=http://rusk.ru/vst.php?idar=321701 |trans-title=Tambov rebellion and liquidation of peasants in Russia |title=Тамбовское восстание 1918−1921 гг. и раскрестьянивание России 1929−1933гг. |location=[[Moscow]] |publisher=Posev |language=ru |isbn=5-85824-152-2 |oclc=828507211 |access-date=2015-02-27 |archive-date=2019-03-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190330141755/http://rusk.ru/vst.php?idar=321701 |url-status=live }}</ref>{{page needed|date=August 2020}}
| casualties1       =
| casualties2       =
}}
{{Campaignbox Russian Civil War}}
{{Southern Front of the Russian Civil War}}
The '''Tambov Rebellion''' of 1920–1922 was one of the largest and best-organized [[peasant rebellion]]s challenging the [[Bolshevik]] government during the [[Russian Civil War]].{{Sfnm|1a1=Conquest|1y=1986|1pp=51–53|2a1=Werth|2y=1999|2p=108}} The uprising took place in the territories of the modern [[Tambov Oblast]] and part of the [[Voronezh Oblast]], less than {{convert|500|km|-2}} southeast of Moscow.

In [[Soviet historiography]], the rebellion was referred to as the '''''Antonovschina''''' ("Antonov's mutiny"), so named after [[Alexander Antonov (politician)|Alexander Antonov]], a former official of the [[Socialist Revolutionary Party]], who opposed the government of the [[Bolsheviks]]. It began in August 1920 with resistance to the forced confiscation of grain and developed into a guerrilla war against the [[Red Army]], [[Cheka]] units and the Soviet Russian authorities. The bulk of the peasant army was destroyed by large [[Red Army]] reinforcements using [[chemical weapons]] in the summer of 1921;{{Sfn|Figes|1997|p=768}} smaller groups continued resistance until the following year. It is estimated that around 100,000 people were arrested and around 15,000 killed during the suppression of the uprising.

The movement was later portrayed by the Soviets as anarchical banditry, similar to other [[Left-wing uprisings against the Bolsheviks|left-wing anti-Bolshevik movements]] that opposed them during this period.