Tatarbunary Uprising

Tatarbunary Uprising
A group of rebels participating in the uprising (FOCR)
Date 15–18 September 1924 Location Tatarbunary and neighbouring areas, Kingdom of Romania (now part of Ukraine) Result Revolt quelled by Romanian authorities
Belligerents
Tatarbunary Revolutionary Committee Supported by:  Soviet Union	Romanian Royal Army Romanian Danube Flotilla Romanian Gendarmerie
Commanders and leaders
Andrei Klyushnikov Iustin Batișcev [ro]	King Ferdinand I
Strength
4,000-6,000 rebels	Unknown
Casualties and losses
3,000 deaths overall 1,600 rebels arrested

Part of a series on the
Communist movement in the Kingdom of Romania
Organizations Romanian Communist Party Amicii URSS Scînteia
Leaders Gheorghe Cristescu Elek Köblös Vitali Holostenco Boris Stefanov Ștefan Foriș Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej
Repression Repression of communists List of imprisoned communists 1922 Dealul Spirii Trial 1924 Mârzescu Law 1936 Craiova Trial
Strikes Tatarbunary Uprising Grivița strike of 1933 Anti-fascist resistance
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The Tatarbunary Uprising (Romanian: Răscoala de la Tatarbunar) was a Bolshevik-inspired and Soviet-backed peasant revolt that took place on 15–18 September 1924, in and around the town of Tatarbunary (Tatar-Bunar or Tatarbunar) in Budjak (Bessarabia), then part of Romania, now part of Odesa Oblast, Ukraine. It was led by a pro-Soviet revolutionary committee which called for the creation of a "Moldavian Soviet Republic" and an end to "Romanian occupation".^[1]

The uprising was instigated and led by communists from across the Dniester region^[2][3][4][5] who were opposed to the establishment of Greater Romania and regarded the Moldovans as a distinct people^[6] (later that year, a Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, roughly corresponding to Transnistria, was established inside the Ukrainian SSR). The Tatarbunary Uprising, as well as the uprisings of Khotyn and Bender, occurred in those regions in which there were very important demographic changes resulting from Tsarist Russia's policy of colonizing Bessarabia with large numbers of Ukrainians, Russians and other nationalities.^[7] American professor and expert in Moldovan issues Charles King however considers the revolt, along with other similar rebellions in Romanian-administered Bessarabia, as modern jacqueries.^[8]