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

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

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The Nihilists in Russia

There was this youth subculture in 19th century Russia called the nihilists. They were into edgy philosophy and we'll get more into that later. But just to start, understand that they wanted to reject everything about czara society. The best way to do that was just to end the czara, which led them to kind of less invent political terrorism.

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