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

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

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The Death of a Revolutionary

He argues that this book was kind of macho in a way that the men of the sixties had never managed to be. A revolutionary must infiltrate all social formations, including the police,. He must exploit rich and influential people subordinating them to himself. And finally, he must ally himself with the savage world of the violent criminal - "the only true revolutionary in Russia"

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