Timeline Friday 18 March 1921

Events on Friday 18 March 1921 2

• 1921 Kronstadt rebellion suppressed Bolshevik forces crush the sailors' uprising at Kronstadt naval base Sailors and workers at the Kronstadt naval base near Petrograd rose up demanding political freedoms and an end to Bolshevik one-party rule. The Red Army under Mikhail Tukhachevsky stormed the fortress across the ice, crushing the revolt after roughly ten days of fighting. Thousands were killed or later executed, and the episode pushed Lenin toward the New Economic Policy.
• 1921 Treaty of Riga signed Peace treaty ends the Polish-Soviet War Poland and Soviet Russia signed the Treaty of Riga, ending the Polish-Soviet War and fixing their common border for the next two decades. The treaty divided disputed territories in Belarus and Ukraine between the two states. It remained the basis of Poland's eastern frontier until the Soviet invasion of 1939.