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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: And yet this was, perhaps, the main feature of the movement--that it had the power to penetrate into so ‘well meaning’ a…

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And yet this was, perhaps, the main feature of the movement--that it had the power to penetrate into so ‘well meaning’ a school as our corps was, and to find an echo in such a circle as that of my Moscow relatives.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin reflects on the significant influence of the radical movement even within conservative educational settings.

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