In November 1920 the Bolsheviks were in control of most of the tsar. The projected outcome of the Civil War in Russia was quite obvious. Although the Kronstadt Rebellion was largely unsuccessful it had effected the faith the world has in the Bolshevik revolution and it has a large effect in the way Lenin was going to approach War Communism. The continuous fighting from 1914-1920 robbed the country of able-bodied farmers and workers. The cities of northern Russia were depopulated by as much as 24% month by month with the winter of 1920-1921 being on the hardest .

The War Communism in 1921 had a large social impact on its residents in Kronstadt. The sailors were not the only ones being pushed to their limits by it. On January 22, the