Alexander Stepanovich Antonov
Alexander Stepanowitsch Antonow ( Russian Алекса́ндр Степа́нович Анто́нов ; * 1888 in Moscow ; † June 24, 1922 in Nizhny Schibrjai) was the leader of the peasant uprising of Tambov during the Russian Civil War .
Antonov had been a member of the Social Revolutionary Party since 1906 . The February Revolution of 1917 freed him, like other political prisoners, from prison. He was arrested for robbing a train ticket office. After his release, he went to Kirsanow , a town in Tambov Oblast, and served there as chief of police in Kerensky's Provisional Government . In April 1918 he broke with the Bolsheviks who had come to power through the October Revolution and went underground.
In the following two years Antonov led an armed guerrilla group that killed Bolshevik officials. In doing so, they aimed in particular at those who were entrusted with the drafting of recruits for the Red Army and the forced recruitment of food in the countryside. When the farmers in Tambov Oblast resisted the authorities by force of arms in August 1920, after some time he took over the leadership of the rebels.
After the uprising was suppressed by Red Army troops in the summer of 1921, Antonov went underground again. He was caught by Cheka units on June 24, 1922 in the village of Nizhny Schibrjai, a few kilometers northeast of Uvarowo , and shot together with his brother after an hour-long firefight.
literature
- Landis EC The Making of a Civil War Bandit // Bandits and Partisans: The Antonov Movement in the Russian Civil War. - University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008. - 381 p. - (Series in Russian and East European studies). - ISBN 9780822971177 . - ISBN 0822971178 .
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| SURNAME | Antonov, Alexander Stepanowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Антонов, Александр Степанович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian socialist, leader of the Tambov peasant uprising |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 24, 1922 |
| Place of death | at Borisoglebsk |