Pobedonostsev’s work was written in 1940, during the Soviet period, and reflects the era’s strong critique of Tsarist Russia. In his analysis, he characterizes the fate of the Circassians using terminology common to the time, referring to the “physical extermination of an entire people.” 

He further argues that the political, cultural, and economic marginalization of the Circassians was not incidental, but rather the result of a deliberate and systematic state policy. Some passages from the book “In order to hide the terrible crime - the physical extermination of an entire people - the tsarist executioners invented all sorts of legends about the predatory tendencies of the Circassians. However, those who carried out the aggressive policy of tsarism could not hide the fact, and often themselves claimed the opposite: the Circassians tried to maintain peaceful relations with the Russians and provided all kinds of assistance to the Russian settlers, who were their first neighbors. " (Pobedonostsev, 1940, pp. 30-31). 

"Tsarist Russia was a prison of nations. Numerous non-Russian nationalities of Tsarist Russia were completely disenfranchised, constantly subjected to all sorts of humiliations and insults. The Tsarist government taught the Russian population to look at the indigenous peoples of the national regions as an inferior race, officially called them "aliens", and cultivated contempt and hatred for them." Speaking about the situation of non-Great Russian peoples before the revolution, mentioning the Circassians, Comrade Stalin points out "The policy of tsarism, the policy of the landowners and the bourgeoisie in relation to these peoples consisted in killing the beginnings of any statehood among them, crippling their culture, restricting their language, keeping them in ignorance and, finally, Russifying them as much as possible. The results of such a policy are the underdevelopment and political backwardness of these peoples." All this is fully confirmed by the life that the Circassian people were forced to lead before the revolution." (Pobedonostsev, 1940, p. 35).