His father was a democrat in czarist Russia, and he was quite a reformer. At the time that the Bolsheviks took over in 1919, there was a brief window of time prior to the family「s flight.
It is simply wrong to maintain that the gulag was nothing more than a modernized version of its czarist predecessor.
认为古拉格仅仅是现代化的帝俄流放地是完全错误的。
Tula is one of the capitals of the Russian military industry and has produced a significant proportion of Russian small-arms weaponry since czarist times.
图拉州是俄罗斯军工产业的一个中心,自沙皇时代起便生产了俄罗斯很大一部分的轻型武器。
Other editors compared it to Dostoyevski」s 「House of the Dead,」 which the author had based on his own experience of incarceration in czarist times.