CIVIL WAR IN KALUGA PROVINCE

CIVIL WAR IN KALUGA PROVINCE

Authors

• B. Belova I.

Keywords:

Civil War, Kaluga province, the Soviet government, the Military revolutionary Committee, the policy of “war communism", requisitions, deserters, universal labor service, food crisis, resettlement of the population

Abstract

The article deals with the sociopolitical and socioeconomic situation in Kaluga province which was one of the central provinces in European part of Russia outside the theatre of operations during the Civil war (1917–1922).The author highlights the complex process of Bolsheviks installation which was completed only after they threatened to use military force against the defenders of the former regime. The article covers the forms in which the population of the province resisted the Bolshevik policy of “military communism”, the ways the authorities reacted to the resistance and the outcome of this policy. The author points out that the catastrophic situation with food supply contributed to chaotic exodus of the natives and the refugees to the producing south-east regions and behind the Urals.