I was soon taken up by the wave of the anarchist movement, which was just then rising in Western Europe; and I felt that I should be more useful in helping that movement to find its proper expression than I could possibly be in Russia.
He describes his commitment to the anarchist movement in Western Europe instead of returning to Russia.
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