It was only after they had been arrested and kept three or four years in prison for having dared to think as socialists, and had sounded the full depth of Russian absolutism, that several of them developed into ardent propagandists, chiefly of a political revolution.
Kropotkin discusses how imprisonment transformed some individuals into fervent political revolutionaries.
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