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