THE TRUTH ABOUT KRONSTADT:

The Story of the Heroic Struggle of the People of Kronstadt Against the Communist Party Dictatorship,

with a Map of Kronstadt, Its Forts and the Gulf of Finland

by Scott Zenkatsu Parker

edited by

Mary Huey

Dedicated to my parents, Kathleen and Clarence Pugh
Originally presented in 1992 as an Honors Thesis to the Faculty of the Department of German, Russian, and East Asian Languages and Literatures at Bates College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Science. Home

Title Page
Foreword
Map

The Beginning of Worker Disturbances in Petrograd
Beginning of the Movement in Kronstadt
Formation of the Kronstadt Provisional Revolutionary Committee
Kronstadt Takes Measures of Self Defense
Kronstadters and Bolsheviks
Composition of the Provisional Revolutionary Committee
The Bolshevik Attack on Kronstadt
"The Third Revolution"
The Storm of Kronstadt
Hopes of the Kronstadters
Lies and Slander of the Bolsheviks
Flight of the Kronstadt Bolsheviks from the Ranks of the Communist Party
Kronstadt's Slogans
The Bloody Struggle
The End of Kronstadt
Consequences of the Kronstadt Uprising, and Its Meaning
Appendix: The Complete Edition of Izvestiia of the Provisional Revolutionary Committee

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Copyright © 1992, 1998 by Scott Zenkatsu Parker.
The author permits the unlimited duplication, transmission, and distribution of this text with the proper citations for academic, educational, and non-commercial use only. If you cite this work, please email a copy of your completed text to zkparker@pacifier.com.