'exigent' in October: The Story of the Russian Revolution | Bookmarker

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(adjective) requiring immediate aid or action / (adjective) requiring or calling for much; demanding

it is not their softening hearts that drives this. It is anxiety at waves of peasant riots and rebellions, and it is the exigencies of development

on Alexander II emancipating serfs in 1861

—p.7 The Prehistory of 1917 (5) by China Miéville

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