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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “For my brother and myself this insurrection was a great lesson.”

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For my brother and myself this insurrection was a great lesson.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin shares a personal lesson learned from a significant insurrection.

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