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10.28- The Spark

Revolutions

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Lenin's Exile to Siberia

Exiles to siberia came in two broad forms, either hard labor in work camps or just being ordered togo live in some remote village that you were not allowed to leave. Since the crimes our young radicals stood accused of amounted to merely distributing subversive literature, their sentences were all administer exile to remote siberian villages rather than hard labor. To a certain degree, lenin enjoyed his exile. He was able to complete his first major theoretical work, the development of capitalism in russia, in between hunting and fishing expeditions. Martof's three years in exile were defined by physical discomfort, mental isolation and poor health. And they were husband and wifecomrade martov

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