"The poor peasant here hives under conditions quite different from those of Russia. Though often terrible, they are not as appalling as they were there."

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"The poor peasant here hives under conditions quite different from those of Russia. Though often terrible, they are not as appalling as they were there."

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"The revolution came so suddenly, and in a way so utterly different from what we expected."

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