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Human rights in the Soviet Union

  • NKVDThe People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs emerged from the chaos of the Russian October Revolution in 1917. Lenin and the Bolsheviks seized state power…
  • Human rights in the Soviet UnionAndrey Vyshinsky, a Soviet law theorist, dismissed Western concepts of civil liberties as bourgeois morality. He argued that the government was the sole…