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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “Many young people cherished for a time the same hopes; but all these hopes vanished at the first contact with the actual…”

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Many young people cherished for a time the same hopes; but all these hopes vanished at the first contact with the actual government machinery.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin reflects on the disillusionment of youth with government after revolutionary hopes are dashed.

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