In short, our work was very serious; and even now, looking back at it through the perspective of so many years, I can say in full confidence that if municipal self-government had been granted then, in the modest shape which we gave to it, the towns of Siberia would be very different from what they are.
Kropotkin expresses his belief that early municipal self-government could have significantly changed Siberian towns.
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