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10.21- The Socialist Revolutionaries

Revolutions

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The History of Russian Socialism in the Nineteenth Century

Killing the czar was posed to simultaneously cause the imperial apparatus to fall apart and trigger the people to rise up. And then people's will did it. The repressive imperial police state only spread wider and drove deeper. As for the peasants, they were seemingly as inert and apathetic as ever. Certainly there was no mass insurrection accompanying the death of tsar alexander. But neurodism did not die in the 18 eighties. It simply went into hibernation. When it emerged from its slumber in the 18 nineties, it still found a lot of enthusiastic adherents. Even with the rapid industrialization of the vita system, the empire was still overwhelmingly rural, agr

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