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As Alexander Berkman noted, the Communist government would "make no concessions to the proletariat, while at the same time they were offering to compromise with the capitalists of Europe and America." While happy to negotiate and compromise with foreign governments, they treated the workers and peasants of Kronstadt (and the rest of Russia) as the class enemy!

Liddell Hart, Basil Henry (1956). The Red Army: the Red Army, 1918 to 1945, the Soviet Army, 1946 to the present. New York: Harcourt, Brace. p.385. Rogovin, Vadim Zakharovich (2009). Stalin's Terror of 1937-1938: Political Genocide in the USSR. Mehring Books. p.361. ISBN 978-1-893638-04-4. To request all branches of the Army, as well as our comrades the military kursanti, to concur in our resolutions; To abolish immediately all zagryaditelniye otryadi (Bolshevik units armed to suppress traffic and confiscate foodstuffs); The right of return provided by this Condition is additional to any right or remedy provided by law or by these Conditions of Sale.

Kimmage, Michael (2009). The Conservative Turn: Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers, and the lessons of anti-communism. Harvard University Press. p.79. ISBN 978-0-674-05412-7. Archived from the original on 2021-01-19 . Retrieved 2021-01-18. Lenin announced two conclusions from Kronstadt: political rank closure within the party, and economic ingratiation for the peasantry. [208] Lenin used Kronstadt to consolidate the Bolsheviks' power and dictatorial rule. [210] Dissidents were expelled from the party. [211] Oppositional leftist parties, once harassed but tolerated, were repressed—jailed or exiled—by the end of the year in the name of single party unity. [209] The Bolsheviks tightened soldier discipline and scuttled plans for a peasant and worker army. Lenin wanted to scrap the Baltic Fleet as having an unreliable crew but, per Trotsky, they were instead reorganized and populated with loyal leadership. [207] c) “hammer price” means the level of bidding reached (at or above any reserve) when the auctioneer brings down the hammer or the timed online sale closes; a b Guttridge, Leonard F. (2006). Mutiny: A History of Naval Insurrection. Naval Institute Press. p.174. ISBN 978-1-59114-348-2.Kronstadt was a popular uprising from below by the same sailors, soldiers and workers that made the 1917 October revolution. The Bolshevik repression of the revolt can be justified in terms of defending the state power of the Bolsheviks but it cannot be defended in terms of socialist theory. Indeed, it indicates that Bolshevism is a flawed political theory, which cannot create a socialist society, but only a state capitalist regime based on party dictatorship. This is what Kronstadt shows above all else: given a choice between workers' power and party power, Bolshevism will destroy the former to ensure the latter. The Kronstadt sailors had been in the vanguard of the revolutionary events of 1905 and 1917. In 1917, Trotsky called them the "pride and glory of the Russian Revolution." The inhabitants of Kronstadt had been early supporters and practitioners of soviet power, forming a free commune in 1917 which was relatively independent of the authorities. In the words of Israel Getzler, an expert on Kronstadt: The various groups of emigres and government opponents were too divided to make a joint-effort for the rebels. [123] Kadetes, Mensheviks, and revolutionary socialists maintained their differences and did not collaborate to support the rebellion. [124] Victor Chernov and the revolutionary socialists attempted to launch a fundraising campaign to help the sailors, [125] but the PRC refused aid, [126] convinced that the revolt would spread throughout the country, with no need for foreign aid. [127] The Mensheviks, for their part, were sympathetic to the rebel demands but not to the revolt itself. [128] The Paris-based Russian Union of Industry and Commerce secured support from the French Foreign Ministry to supply the island and begin fundraising for the rebels. [129] Wrangel, whom the French continued to supply, promised his Constantinople troops to Kozlovsky and began an unsuccessful campaign to gain the support of the powers. [130] No power agreed to provide military support to the rebels, and only France tried to facilitate the arrival of food on the island. [131] Aid from the Finnish "kadetes" did not arrive in time. Even as anti-Bolsheviks called on the Russian Red Cross's assistance, no help came to the island during the two-week rebellion. [124] Shechner, Mark (2003). Up Society's Ass, Copper: Rereading Philip Roth. University of Wisconsin Press. p.237. ISBN 978-0-299-19354-6.