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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “The literature which could be published in Russia under a rigorous censorship--the faintest hint of socialism being…”

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The literature which could be published in Russia under a rigorous censorship--the faintest hint of socialism being prohibited--was soon found insufficient, and we started a printing office of our own abroad.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin highlights the challenges of publishing socialist literature under strict censorship in Russia.

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