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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “All hoped that a great social revolution, peaceful or not, would soon come and totally change the economic conditions.”

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All hoped that a great social revolution, peaceful or not, would soon come and totally change the economic conditions.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin captures the collective anticipation for a significant social revolution among the workers.

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