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Lenin read Hippolyte Taine’s “The Origins of Contemporary France” in 1906 and it changed his game to Jacobinism.

Taine wrote it in 1870s as a warning in part, he did interview many survivors for his work.

The methods are more useful than the drama and “terror” etc.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/23524/23524-h/23524-h.htm

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