Lamanov
13th November 2007, 21:24
This is bit confusing and perhaps silly: it seems as there were two Stepan Petrichenkos in Soviet revolutionary history, both were sailors on Petropavlovsk, but one led a sailors' occupation of Naissaar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Republic_of_Naissaar), while other one was a president of PRK of Kronstadt in 1921.
But why are they the same person in this article on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepan_Petrichenko)?
It seems that this is a mistake - big one - and should be checked out and seen that it gets corrected. This article is confusing and completely incorrect. We know allot of information on Kronstadt 1921, but the former event in Estonia is completely blur and missing validating sources. We know for a fact that Petrichenko was a Ukranian, and he was in Petropavlovsk regiment for a very long time in service of the Bolsheviks until the rebellion of march 1921.
It seems as if the Wiki-author just copy-pasted all info he could find on "Petrichenko", thus turning them into one and same person: according to this data, he's both from Ukraine and Kaluga (!), and went to College even though he had "only two years of formal training" (!), participated in two anti-Bolshevik uprisings while in between he served under their command, fled to Finland in 1921 even though he was evicted from the USSR in 1940... etc. :lol:
Here, on Answers.com (http://www.answers.com/topic/stepan-petrichenko), they don't make the same mistake and identify him with events in Naissaar, but they make a mistake by calling him Hungarian.
Correct information can be found in introduction to "Truth About Kronstadt" (Volia Rossii, Prague 1921) by S. Z. Parker (http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mhuey/TOC/TOC.Authors.html) about S. Petrichenko who participated in Kronstadt events.
But why are they the same person in this article on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepan_Petrichenko)?
It seems that this is a mistake - big one - and should be checked out and seen that it gets corrected. This article is confusing and completely incorrect. We know allot of information on Kronstadt 1921, but the former event in Estonia is completely blur and missing validating sources. We know for a fact that Petrichenko was a Ukranian, and he was in Petropavlovsk regiment for a very long time in service of the Bolsheviks until the rebellion of march 1921.
It seems as if the Wiki-author just copy-pasted all info he could find on "Petrichenko", thus turning them into one and same person: according to this data, he's both from Ukraine and Kaluga (!), and went to College even though he had "only two years of formal training" (!), participated in two anti-Bolshevik uprisings while in between he served under their command, fled to Finland in 1921 even though he was evicted from the USSR in 1940... etc. :lol:
Here, on Answers.com (http://www.answers.com/topic/stepan-petrichenko), they don't make the same mistake and identify him with events in Naissaar, but they make a mistake by calling him Hungarian.
Correct information can be found in introduction to "Truth About Kronstadt" (Volia Rossii, Prague 1921) by S. Z. Parker (http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mhuey/TOC/TOC.Authors.html) about S. Petrichenko who participated in Kronstadt events.