In Russia in the time of the tsars, individuals who criticized the government were treated like enemies and suppressed. Those trying to change government policy were well aware that their only hope was to overthrow the system. Many people attempting such change were aided by the government itself, whose acts were so irrational and self-defeating that they only encouraged more opposition. The author describes the activities of the most important dissidents and agitators from the reign of Ivan the Terrible to Nicholas II and the fall of the Romanovs in 1917. Some were fascinating individuals,...
In Russia in the time of the tsars, individuals who criticized the government were treated like enemies and suppressed. Those trying to change governm...
This title describes the fate of those Soviet citizens who were declared 'enemies of the people' not because of what they had done but because who they were. This legal principal led to a holocaust that killed millions of loyal and honest Soviet citizens and incarcerated millions more in system of slave labour camps.
This title describes the fate of those Soviet citizens who were declared 'enemies of the people' not because of what they had done but because who the...
