The use of censorship to eliminate opposition demonstrated that radical groups in the Tsarist and Communist regimes were prevented from influencing the masses to that they become radical so that they can overthrow regimes. However, under the regime of Nicholas II, censorship was effective as it was another repressive measure aimed at eliminating opposition. Nicholas believed that Russian youth were exposed to the ideals of propaganda and that, believing that the government had the power to control what was published or read, censorship diminished the influence that radical groups needed to carry out their plans. . Strict censorship rules continued from 1848-55, then changed in 1855-63 when censorship was relaxed with the implementation of glasnost (open policy). Which indicated that the government had carried out the idea of ​​removing the "dangerous orientation" which increased the number of books in 1855 with 1,020 and 1864 with 1,836 establishing that it was easy to print material especially when the government had economic and social problems. As a result, radical groups were influenced to the extent that they were powerful enough to assassinate Alexander II in 1881. However, the rules remained relaxed until the revolution of 1905, which effectively prevented opposition groups from 'influence people at a crucial time when propaganda would have been effective in overthrowing the Tsar. Although his abdication proves that with strict censorship rules, opposition groups found other, failed, ways to overthrow the Tsar, establishing that censorship under Nicholas II's regime eliminated the opposition much more than any other tsar or communist. This is evident because under Stalin's regime, editors had to write under the banner of "socialist realism", which reflected heroic efforts... in the middle of the newspaper... to squeeze the counter-revolutionaries rather than eliminate the opposition. Because the Bolsheviks abolished freedom of the press and control of information indicated that opposition was inevitable, this led to violent reprisals that reduced opposition but established the annihilation of Stalin's regime. Censorship and other repressive methods were often used in tsarist regimes to effectively control radicals and anti-state crimes, which is mainly reflected in the regime of Nicholas II, indicating that this effective measure eliminated opposition without recourse to the terror or violence on which Stalin always relied. CitiesRussia and its leaders, 1855-1964, HollandStalin and Stalinism, Alan WoodRethinking the Russian Revolution, ActionRussia under the old regime, PipesThe tragedy of a people, Orlando FigesThe modernization of Russia, ServiceThe Great Terror, Robert Conquête