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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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inchoate

most on the nascent Soviet commission had an analysis and sense that history was not yet theirs. That in this context there were, must be, limitations to and necessary brakes on their own role, their own power. As yet inchoate, this would be the start of a strange strain of self-limiting politics.

re: Kerensky's speech asking them to accept the power of the Duma Commission

—p.58 February: Joyful Tears (39) by China Miéville
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fervid

In he came, tense but confident, holding the attention of the room with a fervid speech begging the Soviet to acquiesce to this coalition

Kerensky

—p.58 February: Joyful Tears (39) by China Miéville
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ineluctable

What they shared was a certainty that change, a revolution, was necessary, and ineluctable. They were in a new city, in eruption, on Red Monday. The old law was dying, the new not yet decided.

—p.50 February: Joyful Tears (39) by China Miéville
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something died with him

Peremptorily, Lashkevitch read out the tsar’s command to restore order. Once, perhaps, that might have persuaded them to submit. Now it was a provocation. There was a scuffle, shouts, alarm. Someone in the crowd of soldiers raised a weapon. Or perhaps, it has even been suggested, Lashkevitch raised…

—p.49 February: Joyful Tears (39) by China Miéville
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