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And things are quite complex in those early days,
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so there's more than one anti-czarist factor.
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And his father was a democrat but not a Bolshevik;
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so, he was anti-czarist, but he was not a Bolshevik.
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His father wrote for revolutionary newspapers,
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and he continued to write and publish a newspaper even as an emigre.
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He was assassinated in 1922 in Europe on account of his
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publishing activities.
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Nabokov was very, very fond of his parents.
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He has these luminous, luminous essays about his life as a
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child in this sort of perfectly intact aristocratic world,
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and in that picture his mother and father loom very large and