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Technical education--in a country which was so much in want of engineers, educated agriculturists, and geologists--was treated as equivalent to revolutionism.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
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Kropotkin argues that the Russian government viewed the need for technical education as a threat to their authority.
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