
Part One: Russian Nihilists: The Gender-bending Subculture that Blew Up the Tsar
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Chernichovsky and the Nihilists
Dostoevsky hated the nihilists and he spent his entire career writing novels about how much he hated them. And so we're going to talk first really quickly about my least favorite nihilist who's named Ivan. Can you guess how that went for him? You got kicked in the head. He only eats black bread and steak. He lifts weights and hauls boats around and he doesn't drink or fuck. Lenin copied the weightlifting thing. I slept on a bed of nails. We'll make an entertaining podcast.
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