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Two generations, perhaps, will succumb in the task, and yet it must be done.’ None of the women of our circle would have given way before the certainty of death on the scaffold.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
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Kropotkin captures the determination of women in their revolutionary circle, willing to sacrifice for their cause.
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