
Part Two: Russian Nihilists: The Gender-bending Subculture that Blew Up the Tsar
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The Destructive Urge Is Also a Creative Urge
Sergey was born in 1847 and he's a bit younger than of our previous heroes. His parents were freed as serfs before the serfs were freed. He went to St. Petersburg and he became a student radical in a nihilist. And while he's there, he meets a fellow revolutionist and he's into her. They both want to kill the czar. So Sergey decides that he's going to get out of Russia for a while. The book is basically like having your own life is counterrevolutionary.
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