"And if these scrolls - of both the extrajudicial executions and those by tribunal - are unrolled for us someday, the most surprising thing will be the number of ordinary peasants we find on them. Because there is no end to the number of peasant uprisings and revolts from 1918-1921, even though they did not adorn the colored pages of the offical "History of the Civil War", and even though no one photographed them, and no one filmed motion pictures of those furious crowds attacking machine guns with clubs, pitchforks, and axes and, later, lined up for execution with their arms tied behind their backs - Ten for one!.....
We learn from Latsis the number of peasant rebellions that were suppressed during that same year and a half in twenty provinces - 344. From 1918 on, peasant revolts were already being called "Kulak" revolts, for how could the peasants revolt against the workers' and peasants' power!"
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The Gulag Archipelago. Vol 1, pg 303
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