The Soviet Empire - The First Five Years

The rise of the soviet empire was a catastrophic onslaught on millions of peasant households. As terror generalized, the violence mounted to full scale rebellion in various places. Resistance took various forms, usually reflecting the hopeless desperate anguish of a doomed population. In the ukraine, there were even women's rebellions,. spontaneous uprisings of peasant men who attacked the local cocoses and demanded the return of confiscated farm products.