Everywhere in Europe, at the beginning of this century, there was a great deal of domestic despotism--the writings of Thackeray and Dickens bear ample testimony to it--but nowhere else had that tyranny attained such a luxurious development as in Russia.
Kropotkin highlights the prevalence of domestic despotism in early 20th-century Europe, particularly in Russia.
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