... preserve autocracy. However under the Soviet rule between 1917-1955, secret police institutions like that of the OGPU, NKVD, Cheka and Red army to an extent, were rather used to inflict terror on the Russian population to suppress opposition and preserve autocracy. Anti-communist historian Richard Pipesi highlights the success in the Bolsheviks using terror 1918 to ... the Tsarist regime, as the disregard for ordinary people shown by the authorities undermined support for the system. The event presented the government as using terror ineffectively to preserve autocracy, in that era due t...

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