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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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How the Nihilists Reacted to the Young Hegelians

The word nihilism itself is really blurry and up to subjective analysis. Most of what's written about the nihilists talks about where they are in terms of political philosophy. The revolutionary nihilists dropped a lot of the subcultural fashion, but they kept and intensified the rejection of the current order. They were trying to live their lives and take agency over their own fate that had been denied them.

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