Крестьянский протест в Енотаевском уезде Астраханской губернии в годы Гражданской войны

Abstract

The research aims to study in a comprehensive manner the peasant armed rebellion in Astrakhan Province during the Civil War, using Popov’s detachment as an example. Scientific novelty of the paper lies in the fact that there is no concrete historical study on this issue in the regional historiography; the work is novel in that it introduces sources of different types interpreted within the space of methodological pluralism into scientific use. As a result, it is proved that the main reasons for the peasant rebellion in Astrakhan Province during the considered period consisted in the fact that a part of the peasantry refused to accept the policy of extreme requisitioning, repressive and mobilisation measures that were carried out by the Soviet government, which manifested itself, among other things, in conscription evasion, desertion from the ranks, creation of armed detachments that interacted with military formations of the White Army and engaged in partisan warfare in the rear of the Red Army.