Part One: Russian Nihilists: The Gender-bending Subculture that Blew Up the Tsar
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The Soviets' Discreditation of the Nihilus
The Nihilus were mostly lower middle class and then they're outliers in both directions. When cops would try to infiltrate, just to make this even more like punk, they would do two things wrong that would get them out. But overall, the Soviets want to bring them in and be like, Oh, these people totally would have loved Bolshevism.
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