It is Nihilism, divested of some of its rougher aspects--which were unavoidable in a young movement of that sort--which gives now to the life of a great portion of the educated classes of Russia a certain peculiar character which we Russians regret not to find in the life of Western Europe.
Kropotkin discusses how a refined version of Nihilism shapes the character of Russian educated society.
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