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Part One: Russian Nihilists: The Gender-bending Subculture that Blew Up the Tsar

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The Nihilists and the Widowmaker

Nihilist women left their husbands unless they loved them. Women at the time apparently had their passports controlled either by their fathers or their husbands. So Nihilists would just marry each other like Willie Nilly in order to give women their own passports back. They refused chivalry towards women, they thought it was condescending and told hypocrites and bureaucrats alike what was on their mind. And they were really into adultery except not. They were all a bunch of prudes. All wanted to be free of polyamorous or whatever, but they were all like really obsessed with like asceticism and self-denial. so they like just didn't really hook up. It's my

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