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Abstract. The article is devoted to a particular problem in the framework of a long-running study of the uprising of 1920 under the leadership of A.P. Sapozhkov. The main events of this uprising are well known and the article presents the main works on the topic. The problem is to assess the unrealized potential of this uprising. The purpose of the article is to evaluate the attitude of the population and the Red Army to the uprising, the possibility of consolidating significant forces in the ranks of the rebels. This problem is important both for the study of Sapozhkov’s actual revolt, and for understanding the later events of 1921–1922, when mass uprisings and a wide raiding insurgency unfolded in the Volga region. The complex study of the “small civil war” of 1920–1922 is scientifically relevant. New unpublished sources are involved in the research. The main sources are reports of staff structures of the internal security forces of the Republic. Along with this, published sources are used. The study concludes that there is a significant potential of sympathy for the uprising on the part of the population of Samara, Ural provinces and neighboring areas. Such sympathy was shown by the rural population, the urban population, and, in part, the red army. At the same time, the lack of a foothold in the form of a more or less large urban center did not allow the rebels to begin successful processes of force consolidation. As a result, the uprising spread over vast areas, but failed to form a lasting organized resistance.
Keywords: Russia, civil war, revolt, Sapozhkov, rebel formations, mass sentiment.