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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Crisis in Russia by Arthur Ransome: probably owe to their climate their remarkable incapacity for
prolonged effort. The Russian climate is such that over
large areas of Russia the Russian peasant is accustomed, and
has been accustomed for hundreds of years, to perform
prodigies of labor during two short periods of sowing
and harvest, and to spend the immensely long and
monotonous winter in a hibernation like that of the snake or
the dormouse. There is a much greater difference between a
Russian workman's normal output and that of which he is
capable for a short time if he sets himself to it, than there is
between the normal and exceptional output of an
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