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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “That was the ideal which aroused from their slumber millions of European workers, and attracted to the Association its…”

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That was the ideal which aroused from their slumber millions of European workers, and attracted to the Association its best intellectual forces.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin highlights the inspiring ideal that mobilized millions of workers in Europe towards collective action.

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