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Tolstoy, Leo. "Война и миръ [War and Peace]." The Russian Messenger, 1865-1867. Serial.

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Tolstoy, Leo. War and Peace, translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude. Oxford University Press, 2010.

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Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Записки изъ подполья [Notes from Underground]. Epoch, Jan-Apr. 1864.

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Dostoevsky, Fyodor. "Notes from the Underground." Notes from the Underground and The Double, translated by Ronald Wilks. Penguin Classics, 2009.

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Tolstoy, Leo. Tolstoy's Diaries, edited and translated by R. F. Christian. Vol. 1, Faber and Faber, 2010. Originally diary entry, 6 Jan. 1854.

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Tolstoy, Leo. "Three Methods of Reform." Pamphlets: Translated from the Russian. Free Age Press, 1900.

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Chekhov, Anton. Чайка [The Seagull]. 17 Oct. 1896, Alexandrinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg, Russia, act. 2.

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Chekhov, Anton. "The Seagull." Plays, translated by Peter Carson. Penguin, 2002, act 2.

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Tolstoy, Leo. Letter to Prince V. P. Meshchersky. 22 Aug. 1871.

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Tolstoy, Leo. Tolstoy's Letters: 1828-1879, translated and edited by R. F. Christian. Vol. 1, University of London The Athlone Press, 1978.

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Rand, Ayn. The Fountainhead. Bobbs Merrill, 1943, pt. 3, ch. 4.

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Lenin, Vladimir. "Our Foreign and Domestic Position and Party Tasks." The Moscow Gubernia Conference Of The R.C.P.(B.). 21 Nov. 1920, Moscow, Russia. Speech.

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Lenin, Vladimir. Quoted in Communism, written by Mark Sandle. Routledge, 2014.

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Nabokov, Vladimir. "Anonymous." Strong Opinions. McGraw-Hill, 1973.

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Kant, Immanuel. Critik der praktischen Vernuft [Critique of Practical Reason]. Riga: Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, 1788, conclusion.

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Kant, Immanuel. Critique of Practical Reason, translated by Mary Gregor. Cambridge University Press, 2015, conclusion.

The urge for destruction is also a creative urge!

Mikhail Bakunin

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Bakunin, Michael (published as Jules Elysard). "Die Reaktion in Deutschland." Jahrbuch für Wissenschaft und Kunst. c. 1842.

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Tolstoy, Leo. "Three Methods of Reform." Pamphlets: Translated from the Russian. Free Age Press, 1900.

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Lenin, Vladimir. Государство и революция [The State and Revolution]. Progress Publishers, 1917, ch. 5, sect. 4.

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Lenin, Vladimir. "The State and Revolution." Essential Works of Lenin, edited by Henry M. Christman. Dover Publications, 1987, ch. 5, sect. 4.

Imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.

Vladimir Lenin

Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism

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Lenin, Vladimir. Империализм как высшая стадия капитализма [Imperialism, the Newest Stage of Capitalism]. Petrograd: Zhizn i Znaniye Publishers, 1917, pt. 7.

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Lenin, Vladimir. "Imperialism, the Highest State of Capitalism." Essential Works of Lenin, edited by Henry M. Christman. Dover Publications, 1987, pt. 7.

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Goldman, Emma. "Anarchism: What It Really Stands For." Anarchism and Other Essays. Mother Earth Publishing Association, 1910.

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Nabokov, Vladimir. Pale Fire. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1962.

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Pushkin, Alexander. Devils. c. 1830.

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Pushkin, Alexander. "Demons (1830)." Alexander Pushkin: Selected Poetry, translated by Antony Wood. Penguin Classics, 2020.

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Chekhov, Anton. Diary entry. c. 1885.

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Chekhov, Anton. The Notebooks of Anton Chekhov and Reminiscences of Chekhov, translated by S. S. Koteliansky and Leonard Woolf. University Press of the Pacific, 2002.

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Chekhov, Anton. Вишнёвый сад [The Cherry Orchard]. Directed by Konstantin Stanislavski. 17 Jan. 1904, Moscow Art Theatre, Moscow, Russia, act. 1.

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Chekhov, Anton. "The Cherry Orchard." Plays: Ivanov; The Seagull' Uncle Vanya; Three Sisters; The Cherry Orchard, translated by Peter Carson. Penguin Classics, 2002, act 1.

Better to abolish serfdom from above than to wait till it begins to abolish itself from below.

Czar Alexander II of Russia

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Czar Alexander II of Russia. Speech to Moscow Nobility. 30 Mar. 1856, Moscow, Russia.

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Czar Alexander II of Russia. Quoted in A Concise History of Russia, written by Ronald Hingley. Thames & Hudson, 1991.