Black Rose Book No. 3. Translation of La Commune de Cronstadt. Introduction by Murray Bookchin. The Kronstadt uprising of 1921 was one of the most important yet often overlooked events of the Russian civil war. The bloody suppression of the popular uprising by the "government of the workers and peasants" marked the final blow to any hopes of a genuine popular revolution based on democratic self-management. This volume relates the events that made clear the true nature of the "proletarian" dictatorship.