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… Other Fires. By Maxim Gorki. New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, $3.00. Toward the Seizure of Power. By. V. I. … of the norms of social existence they had worshipped. He deals with the abortive revolution of 1905-06, peasant … who hate all that degrades, who unquestionably know how to die for a cause, but whose idealism is rarely organized and …

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