>The Communists made the Tsarist regime look like rank amateurs in terror, they weren’t even trying in comparison There is a certain danger in this sort of thi

>The Communists made the Tsarist regime look like rank amateurs in terror, they weren’t even trying in comparison There is a certain danger in this sort of thinking which seeks to compare levels of terror quantitatively with disregard to their qualitative effects and purposes. The Bolsheviks are guilty of many evils, but not for the same reasons or purposes as the Tsar. Remember that Tsarist Russia didn't only operate on cases of immediate violence, it used structural ones too. Structural violence is well understood today.