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Russian Soviet

how did people resist oppression in the French Revolution and the Russian Revolution/soviet totalitarianism?

if you could give me examples of peoples names or groups that resisted during these revolutions and how they succeeded

I don’t know about the French revolution, but during the Russian Revolution there was a creeping terror.
Initially it affected the peasants, during the period of War Communism and the Civil War. Then again during the famines and then party members were targeted, then the army, then engineers etc. So small groups did resist, but they were easily broken & terrorised into submisson.

In Ukraine there were armed bands who resisted Soviet Rule who lasted from WWII until the mid 1950s. See:

http://www.infoukes.com/upa/related/uf.html

There were similar groups in the Baltic republics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_Brothers

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