Word: propagandist
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...personal history of some of the students was thrilling. The oldest of the two Russians, a man of middle age, was a medical student. As a teacher, a lay doctor, and the propagandist of liberal ideas, he wandered over Russia for ten years. He had seen with pitying eye the misery and suffering of his native land under the despotic rule of the Czar. He had followed his own brother, banished without trial, in his weary march to Siberia, until driven away from the band of exiles by the brutal blows of the guards. Soon he expected to take...