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Jul '09
Radical Russian novelist Nikolai Chernyshevsky wrote "What is to Be Done?" a revolutionary tract not as fun-spirited as Danielle Steele, but a real page-turner nonetheless.
SUBMITTED BY: Barrie Mirman LOCATION: Moscow State University, Russia
Thumbs up for Russian socialism! Woo Hoo!
This is perhaps the most enthusiastic tourist response to Russian novelist Nikolai Chernyshevsky, whose call-to-arms book “What is to Be Done?” wound up on the coffee tables of a lot of Soviet revolutionaries.
(Barrie Mirman is a globetrotting photographer who is one of the few people to have ever smiled in the gloomy Moscow subway)
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