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.
Historian and author Stephen Kotkin of Princeton University and Stanford University's Hoover Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the historical significance of the life and work of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Solzhenitsyn's birth.