'White generals, you all know it, played a great part in this.
This is fully proved.'
Lenin, report delivered to the 10th Congress of the R.C.P. (B), March
8, 1921. Selected Works, vol. IX, p.98.
'The Bolsheviks denounced the men of Kronstadt as
counter-revolutionary mutineers, led by a White general. The
denunciation appears to have been groundless.'
Isaac Deutcher, The Prophet Armed, (Oxford University Press, 1954)
p.511
'No pretence was made that the Kronstadt mutineer were White
Guards.'
Brian Pearce (Historian of the Socialist Labour Leaque) in Labour
Review, vol. V, No. 3.