Lenin and the Russians - The Kronstat Rebellion

All evidence suggests that the kronstat rebellion was a genuinely spontaneous and self directed affair, driven by events around petrograd. While there was a group of anti communist russian emigres organizing in paris, they had honed in on kronstadt as a viable beach head for making a play back into russia. But still, lenin and his colleagues could not afford to recognize the sailors as being justly motivated by their own revolutionary principles. Nor could they make a respected revolutionary. The face of the rebellion, stepan petrushenko, was not somebody they wanted to wage a war against. So instead, their propaganda fixated on general alexander kolowski