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  • A cossack's whip wrapped in the parchment of a constitution.

    - Leon originally Lev Davidovich Bronstein Trotsky
      On the October Manifesto, a package of limited constitutional reforms conceded by theTzarist government following the strikes and civil unrest of early October1905. Quoted in Lionel Kochan Russia in Revolution (1967).

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