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Soviet Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (6712 words) |
 | A parliament, the State Duma, was established in 1906, after the 1905 Revolution but political and social unrest continued and was aggravated during World War I by military defeat and food shortages in major cities. |
| The KGB (Committee for State Security), served in a fashion as the Soviet counterpart to both the FBI and the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) in the U.S. It ran a massive network of informants throughout the Soviet Union, which was used to monitor violations in law. |
| While state control of mass media, printing presses, and other means of large-scale distribution of information was strong, this samizdat was sometimes tolerated to a degree, though prominent dissidents were subject to state persecution and suppression. |
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