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10.15- The Tsar Must Die

Revolutions

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The Russian Revolutionary Party

In 18 66, a minor noble from the volga region named dmitri karkazov decided to cut to the chase. Karkazov believed the peasantry was inhibited by superstitious beliefs about the mystical power of the czar as a quasi deity. And what he hoped to do was break that spell, to prove the emperor was a mortal like everyone else. The peasants were already doing collective ownership and managing their own affairs perfectly well. So this is just standard issue, is nothing sacred hand ringing from the oldsters? It's not that nothing is sacred, it's that different things are sacred.

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