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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 Origins of Nihilism

Nihilism is a nonsense word. That's why I still like it. You actually would have done really well with the Russian nihilists with that particular definition. Their specific thing was that basically it was the rejection of the existence rather than like, they didn't reject the idea that something might replace the existence. But that's not what they were focused on. So it wasn't like nothing better could ever happen. What we're focused on is destroying the existence.

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