Soviet armed formations in the fight against the insurgency in the territory of the Volga German region (March – April 1921)

The article examines one of the episodes of the struggle of Soviet armed formations against the peasant insurgency during the end of the Civil War. We are talking about the suppression of an uprising in the territory of the Volga Germans in March – April 1921. The author shows the situation in the camps of two opposing forces – Soviet armed formations and peasant rebels – atthetime oftheir clash, consistently describesthe events ofthe battle inthree cantons ofthe region – Marxstadt, Zelmansky and Baltsersky, draws attention to the strengths and weaknesses of the opponents. The author comes to the conclusion that in difficult conditions, thanks to a well-thought-out organization of military operations, the Soviet armed formations managed to fulfill their task in a short time: to suppress the peasant uprising. 

Soviet armed formations, peasantry, insurrection, war communism, Volga Germans, Volga region Germans, civil war