A local Soviet official caught in the revolution's backlash
On March 2, 1921, the Kronstadt insurgents arrested and imprisoned him.
Pavel Vasiliev was a Bolshevik local official who led the Kronstadt Soviet at the end of the Russian Civil War. He represented Soviet authority as sailors and workers opposing war communism and party rule turned their demands into an open confrontation. In March 1921 the insurgent forces arrested him alongside Nikolai Kuzmin, making his detention a revealing moment in the tension between revolutionary Soviet democracy and the party’s monopoly of power.
Career Timeline
- 1919–1921Chairman of the Kronstadt Soviet
- 1919–1921Chairman of the Kronstadt Soviet executive committee
- 1921.3.1Represented Soviet authority at the Anchor Square assembly
- 1921.3.2Spoke at the delegate meeting and was arrested by the insurgents