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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “But we saw no possible ground, legal or semi-legal, for such a struggle.”

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But we saw no possible ground, legal or semi-legal, for such a struggle.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin notes the lack of legal avenues for political struggle against the government.

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