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Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849

by Christopher Clark

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“Sometimes I feel like Fletcher Christian.”
― Mekons, Hello Cruel World: Selected Lyrics

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“To cook and clean yourself is intolerable. But to have someone else do it is exhausting.”
― Keith Gessen, A Terrible Country

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“You had to be fundamentally stupid, I sometimes thought, to become the sort of academic specialist that hiring committees liked. You had to be thick somehow. You had to block out all the other things in the world to focus on one narrow, particular thing.”
― Keith Gessen, A Terrible Country

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“A nationalist will say that 鈥渋t can鈥檛 happen here,鈥� which is the first step toward disaster. A patriot says that it could happen here, but that we will stop it.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

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“Post-truth is pre-fascism.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

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