11.1 Why the Russian Revolution Failed: When Rich Kids do all the Socialism
WHAT IS POLITICS?
Anarchism and the Peasant Revolt
In the 19th century Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy was famously a sort of Christian anarchist. And his ideas did have many adherents in Russia, and around the world. Peasants tended to conceive of land as something that could only belong to God, or to nobody, or to the state. They tended to imagine the state as a giant commune of communes similar to the ideas for anarchist federations.
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