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| | Tony Cliff: Lenin 1 - Building the Party (Chap.1) |
 | | Alexander was reticent, introspective, “always meditating and sad.” He concealed his political ideas from everyone in the family, so that even his sister Anna, two years his senior, who was with him in Petersburg while he was involved in the assassination plot, knew nothing at all about his politics. |
 | | Alexander’s sense of revolutionary honour was sensitive to it, and, against his better knowledge, he yielded: No, he would not sit back, his arms folded. |
 | | Alexander’s tragedy was that he was a man of the transition in the period of transition. |
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