On the topic of anti-Bolshevik peasant sales promotion, archival documents from the regions of the peasant revolts in chronological order (some in abbreviated form). On January 11, 1919, according to a decree of the Council of People's Commissars, food appropriation was introduced throughout the territory of Soviet Russia. It included a mandatory delivery by farmers to the state at fixed prices of all surplus grain and other agricultural products that exceed the minimum standards established to satisfy personal and economic needs. In fact, the peasants were paid nothing, and often literally all their food was taken. The collection of the products was carried out by the bodies of the People's Commissariat for Food (Narkomfood), food departments with the active assistance of the Committees of the Poor (Kumbadov) and the local Soviets. Peasant unrest and uprisings were suppressed by armed units of local communists, units of the Red Army, and units of the Prodromia. In response, the farmers switched to passive struggle methods: they withheld grain in every possible way and reduced the area, without seeing any point in producing agricultural products. The most tragic result of the policy of "war communism" was a terrible famine that mainly affected the Volga regions with millions of victims. The Peasants' Revolt in the Tambov Region (1919 - 1920) Decree of the Official Committee of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee on the initiation of repressive measures against individual robbers and the families who shelter them N171, Tambov June 11, 1921: Political Committees 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Starting June 1, a decisive fight against the bandits brings a quick calm to the area. Soviet power is steadily being restored, and the working peasants are moving to peaceful and quiet work. Thanks to the decisive actions of our soldiers, Antonov's gang was defeated, dispersed and captured one by one. In order to completely eradicate the roots of the socialist-revolutionary bandits and in addition to the orders given in the past, the Committee of Authority of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee orders: 1. Citizens who refuse to give their names will be shot on the spot without trial. 2.