Having granted institutions of a very limited form of self-government to certain provinces of Russia, the government, immediately after having passed that law, directed all its efforts to reduce that reform to nothing and to deprive it of all its meaning and vitality.
This quote highlights Kropotkin's critique of the superficial reforms of the Russian government that ultimately undermined self-governance.
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