Government forces captured the fortress after assaults across the ice. Trotsky, as war commissar, bore political responsibility for the government’s coercive response, though he later disputed claims that he personally directed the assault. The episode remains a major challenge to idealized accounts of Bolshevik democracy.
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Trotsky accepted no political responsibility for the government’s suppression of Kronstadt.
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As war commissar he bore political responsibility, although he disputed personally directing the assault.