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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: ming in the Czar took alarm, and made haste to
secure their ascendancy by fresh measures of op-
pression. Many schools were closed, including
that of Tolstoy, and the nascent liberty of
the Press was stifled by the most rigid censor-
ship.
In this lamentable manner the history of Rus-
sia's internal misrule and disorder has continued
to repeat itself for the last sixty years, revolving
in the same vicious circle of fierce repression and
persecution and utter disregard of the rights of
The Forged Coupon |
