Rebel Russia

Navalny. Lenin. Pugachev. The Russian rebel in his epic battle against the Leviathan of the Russian state has enthralled readers and writers for decades. The rebel's story is almost always a sad one that ends in exile, imprisonment, or martyrdom, leaving but a seed for the future reform of the Leviathan which he or she had taken on. Why do revolts from the Decembrist uprising to the Snow Rev...