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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: Such a house would be the last to be thought of in connection with revolutionary ideas; and yet it was in that house…

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Such a house would be the last to be thought of in connection with revolutionary ideas; and yet it was in that house that I made my first acquaintance with the revolutionary literature of the times.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin reflects on how he first encountered revolutionary literature in an unexpected setting.

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