ABSTRACT
As 'War Communism' displayed to an alarming degree its unsuitability as a governmental and administrative method, in the Party itself a fateful struggle opened into a simultaneous fight for leadership at the top and the efforts by the upper sections for control over the lower and oppositional elements of the Communist Party. The Red Army and its command could not long remain isolated and immune from these involved and menacing circumstances. With the knowledge that internal victory for the Red Army had secured his land from sequestration by the White Guard officer-landlord, the peasant nevertheless found the realities of Soviet power little to his liking, with the demands which requisition made upon him. Led by Antonov, a former chief of the local militia, the peasants unleashed guerrilla warfare and rebellion upon the Soviet administration in late 1920, thereby presenting the Red Army with a further problem in 'pacification'.
