
Stephen Kotkin on Solzhenitsyn
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The History of the KGB
When Stalin died in 1953, it was still the same regime. The ability to enact mass violence on their own people had diminished. What they began to do instead was a combination of internal exile and what they called prophylaxis. That change in tactics by the KGB marks a change in Soviet society from uneducated,. third, fourth grade education for the most part on average to completion of high schoolEducation as well as external changes in the world.
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