Editing Russian Civil War (section)

====Revolts against grain requisitioning====
Protests against grain requisitioning of the peasantry were a major component of the [[Tambov Rebellion]] and similar uprisings; Lenin's [[New Economic Policy]] was introduced as a concession.

The policies of "food dictatorship" proclaimed by the Bolsheviks in May 1918 sparked violent resistance in numerous districts of [[European Russia]]: revolts and clashes between the peasants and the [[Red Army]] were reported in [[Voronezh]], [[Tambov]], [[Penza]], [[Saratov]] and in the districts of [[Kostroma Oblast|Kostroma]], [[Moscow Oblast|Moscow]], [[Novgorod Oblast|Novgorod]], [[Leningrad Oblast|Petrograd]], [[Pskov Oblast|Pskov]] and [[Smolensk Oblast|Smolensk]]. The revolts were bloodily crushed by the Bolsheviks: in the Voronezh Oblast, the Red Guards killed sixteen peasants during the pacification of the village, while another village was shelled with artillery in order to force the peasants to surrender and in the Novgorod Oblast the rebelling peasants were dispersed with machine-gun fire from a train sent by a detachment of Latvian Red Army soldiers.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Smith |first=Scott Baldwin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5ueUEE8jVRsC |title=Captives of Revolution: The Socialist Revolutionaries and the Bolshevik Dictatorship, 1918–1923 |date=2011-04-15 |publisher=[[University of Pittsburgh Press]] |isbn=978-0-8229-7779-7 |pages=68–70 |language=en}}</ref> While the Bolsheviks immediately denounced the rebellion as orchestrated by the SRs, there is actually no evidence that they were involved into peasant violence, which they deemed as counterproductive.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Smith |first=Scott Baldwin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5ueUEE8jVRsC |title=Captives of Revolution: The Socialist Revolutionaries and the Bolshevik Dictatorship, 1918–1923 |date=2011-04-15 |publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press |isbn=978-0-8229-7779-7 |pages=68 |language=en}}</ref>