About the book: 2012 / This book examines the phenomenon of mass and spontaneous social and political protest of the Russian peasantry under the policy of war communism in 1918— 1921, an assessment is given of the causes and factors of the emergence of the peasant protest movement, an analysis of its nature, typology, dynamics and forms of resistance. The conditions created by the policy of war communism are considered as a factor in the generation of protest phenomena. The nature of peasant uprisings in 1918-1922. in Soviet Russia as a civil war in its content, prepared by the revolution of 1917, allows us to identify the typological commonality of peasant protest throughout the country.