Muravyov mutiny
무라비요프 반란
The mutiny raised at Simbirsk on 10 and 11 July 1918 by Mikhail Muravyov, a Left SR commanding the Red Army's Eastern Front. He declared war on Germany and arrested Mikhail Tukhachevsky and others but was killed the next day at a meeting of the provincial executive committee. How far it was connected to the Left SR uprising in Moscow is unclear.
In depth
What happened?
Mikhail Muravyov became commander of the Eastern Front in June 1918. After the Moscow revolt Lenin doubted his loyalty and told the front's Revolutionary Military Council to watch him. On the night of 9 to 10 July he put two loyal regiments on steamers and left the front headquarters in Kazan. On 10 July he reached Simbirsk with about a thousand men on the steamer Mezhen, took the strategic points and arrested Soviet officials including the First Army commander Tukhachevsky. Rejecting the Brest peace, he styled himself commander-in-chief against Germany and notified the Council of People's Commissars and the German embassy of a declaration of war.
Why was it over so quickly?
On 11 July he came to a meeting of the provincial executive committee and demanded power, but when troops hidden by Iosif Vareikis moved to arrest him he was killed resisting; some sources say he shot himself. The appeal in which Lenin and Trotsky declared him an enemy of the people appeared after his death.
Was it on the party's orders?
Soviet historians linked the mutiny directly to the Moscow revolt. A. V. Savchenko, however, sees it as his own decision after hearing the news and fearing arrest. Muravyov himself said he acted on his own but that the Central Committee knew everything, a claim Yuri Felshtinsky doubts.