Chapan rebellion

[1] At that time the white armies were preparing their advance from the Urals to Ufa, Izhevsk and Votkinsk, so the Bolsheviks required all the youth and food for defense.

For this they used all possible means, including torture, and in many cases the requisitions turned into simple assaults, where the soldiers took even products not subject to collection, condemning their victims to hunger.

[2] On 3 March, the inhabitants of Novodeviche [ru], in the uyezd of Senguilei of the Samara Governorate, attacked the squad in charge of requisitioning their harvest.

[4] Apparently, the managers allowed the gathering of the village in a carnival while doing the requisitions, taking more grain than usually required by the orders, which gave the outraged peasants the opportunity to organize and demand responsibilities.

[2] They named the veteran lieutenant of World War I, Aleksey Dolinin [ru], as their leader,[3] they published appeals, news and orders in the local newspaper, removed all Bolshevik iconography from public places,[2] and began to make plans to seize the governorates of Samara and Simbirsk.

[1] The following day, there was a state of siege in Syzran as peasants in the area rose up, destroying volost offices, burning documents and property and killing local Bolsheviks.

In the vicinity of the village of Eremkino, the rebels were commanded by Irina Felichkina, a veteran of a battalion of defenders of Petrograd, mounted and with a whip giving orders until she was captured and shot.

[1] Dolinin managed to hide in the forest until he turned to join the red armies, fighting against Anton Denikin and being captured in Rostov-on-Don but escaped, then participated in the Polish-Soviet war where he was wounded and in hospital wrote a letter requesting forgiveness from the Central Executive Committee, which granted it, returned to his native village and although he spent several years in prison during the 1930s, he was released and died naturally.

[2] This rebellion favored Kolchak's White Army in their advance westward,[3] in fact, his movement agents were officially blamed,[2] and strengthened the military measures led by Leon Trotsky.

In the parish of Chuvasko-Sormin (uyezd of Yadrinskii, in neighboring Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic) between five and seven thousand peasants rose up against the requisitions, attacking the local police; but their uprising was crushed just three days later.