Word: nihilistic
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Miss Florence Kelly, '82, daughter of "Pig Iron" Kelly, of Pa., well remembered as one of the brightest and most strong-minded women who ever attended Cornell, and whose marriage (as reported) to a distinguished Russian Nihilist was announced some months ago is well remembered at Zurich, Switzerland, where she was one of a little band of students who there sought the higher degrees which they were not allowed to take in other German Universities. While at Zurich, Miss Kelly was prominent in a woman's rights movement which resulted in sending a petition to Congress, though...
...fair and at the same time sympathetic idea of the great movement now progressing in Russia. There is also a book entitled "Underground Russia," which is of inestimable value in giving one an idea of the inside workings of nihilism. It is written by a nihilist leader at present exiled in England, and is authoritative as an expression of revolutionary views...
...female medical students in St. Petersburg-a class from which many redoubtable members of the Nihilist party have emanated-have just been compelled to take up their residence in a large boarding establishment, provided by the authorities, under the superintendence of Princess Shakafskoy, instead of being free, as heretofore, to live where they please. They are to pay ten rubles per month for board and lodging, and be at home before 9 o'clock in the evening, under penalty of exclusion from the medical course. Many of the ladies protested at first against this apparent restriction put upon their liberty...
...such excellent field for the socialist propaganda; why St. Petersburg and Moscow and Kiev and Odessa and other institutions are furnishing young men to the cause in a never failing supply. It is a fight for free discussion and free thought, as well as for constitutional liberties. The "Nihilist" today is not necessarily an anarchist or a denier of everything, as I am told you consider him. He may not even believe as the most of us do, however, that the true remedy for Russian ills must extend to the social make-up, according to the new light of Louis...
Several more Nihilist leaders have been arrested at St. Petersburg. It is stated that among them is the well known female Nihilist, Vera Sassulitch...