The Angara region power and peasantry during the civil war

The purpose of research is to study the relationship between the peasantry and the local, both Soviet and anti-Bolshevik authorities of the Angara Region during the Civil War. The peasant masses greeted the October Revolution and the coming of the Bolsheviks to power with enthusiasm, since the communists abolished all taxes. However, the introduction of fixed prices and a grain monopoly forced the peasants to turn their backs on the communists and led to massive discontent. The peasants did not defend the Bolsheviks in the spring and summer of 1918, and they accepted the change of the regime with relief. However, the Provisional Siberian Government quickly lost the confidence of the farmers, as the whites began to take away and return the lands previously seized by the peasants to their former owners. As a result, the policy of the Siberian government caused massive dis-content among the rural population and provoked a partisan movement. Farmers enthusiastically embraced the fall of the Kolchak regime and the restoration of Soviet power. However, after the Bolsheviks began to implement the surplus appropriation system, mass mobilization in the Red Army, most of the peasant population ceased to support their regime, and by the fall of 1920 there was an outbreak of mass peasant uprisings. The policy of the Soviet government led to a further, more extensive ruin of the peasant economy, which ended only after the transition to the NEP. Thus, it can be concluded that the peasant population of the Angara Region became hostage to the armed confrontation between the two sides of the Civil War and, in fact, became a victim of the state policy pursued. However, the inhabitants of the villages of the Angara Region were not a faceless gray mass, as they did their best to resist the predatory policy and forced the authorities to reckon with their interests and aspirations.