Original sentence: <ref name=Ant>.Antonov, had participated in an anti-soviet plot, and in 1918 went into hiding to avoid arrest and began to set up an illegal band.Because the Tambov region had been an SR stronghold for many years, it experienced unrest.Forces opposed to the Soviet government tried to exploit the dissatisfaction of the peasants with grain requisitioning.Its organizers sought to overthrow the Soviet Government and restore the pre-revolutionary order.Preparations for the revolt were made by the SR Party as early as 1918.SR elements purposely fanned the dissatisfiaction of the peasants with grain requisitioning and the lack of manufactured goods.The leader of the revolt, A
Edited sentence: Filling the state quotas meant death for many by starvation.In 1920 the requisitions were increased from 18 million to 27 million poods in the region.The peasant army was  known as the Antonovtsi or "Blue Army", as opposed to the "White Army" (anti-communist army), "Red Army" (communist army), and "Black Army" (anarchists of Ukraine and Russia)—all taking part in the Civil War.The rebellion was caused by the forced confiscation of grain by the Bolshevik authorities, a policy known in Russian as "prodrazvyorstka".The revolt began on 19 August 1920 in a small town of Khitrovo where a military requisitioning detachment of the Red Army appropriated everything they could and "beat up elderly men of seventy in full view of the public".This caused the peasants to reduce their grain production knowing that anything they did not consume themselves would be immediately confiscated