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However, when the movement was crushed, no account was taken by the middle classes of the modesty of the Communalist claims of the insurgents.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
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Kropotkin laments that the middle classes ignored the modest demands of the Communalist insurgents after the uprising was suppressed.
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