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On the morning of 9 January 1905 (22 January on the New Style calendar Soviet Russia later adopted), a crowd of striking workers marched peacefully through Saint Petersburg towards the Winter Palace,

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In Maxim Gorky’s Summerfolk, a privileged and wealthy cohort – lawyer, doctor, engineer and their families gather in an idyllic country retreat in the summer of 1905 to relax, party and gossip. But al