In Moscow's Shadows 95: Tatarsky, Gershkovich, Patrushev and Guns
In Moscow's Shadows
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The Rise of Generalized Resistance to Putanism
There is this frankly rather insulting cliche of the Russians as bovinely accepting whatever fate and malign authorities throw at them. I think, in my opinion, actually the history demonstrates a very strong tradition of resistance. But again, tending to be small scale and low level,. If one looks back to Tsarist times, the Red Rooster asks and attacks on landlords, properties and the like. It was a very, very common, not quite daily, but weekly event for local peasant risings. Then, if one looks later in early industrialization pre-revolutionary, there was a constant litany of sabotage attacks - sometimes almost luddite, but more often political or economic
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