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A spy or infiltrator who pushes a movement toward divisive or violent action useful to the state.
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agent provocateur
A spy or infiltrator who pushes a movement toward divisive or violent action useful to the state.
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diagnosis
Jiang frames People's Will as a small terrorist group whose successful assassination of Alexander II raises the possibility of secret-police enablement.
diagnosis
Jiang argues that Stalin's early arrests and escapes functioned as revolutionary credentialing and may indicate secret-police protection rather than pure persecution.
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"Lenin's factionalism began to alienate increasing numbers of Bolsheviks, including his former close supporters. So this guy was an asshole. He was a fanatic...."
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"Now the Wikipedia tells us that, okay, well. The Okhrna sent a spy to support Lenin. We can also guess that the secret police..."
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"So this is the people's will, and what you will see is that they're a very small group of people. There's at most 2,000,..."
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"Where do you get your financing from? Another problem is if these are religious fanatics, they really believe that their mission is to liberate..."
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"...among the city's Marxists, some of whom suspected he was an agent provocateur. He was a spy. His mission was to promote violence and..."
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"It makes more sense that he was recruited as a spy by the secret police in order to sow discontent and violence among the..."
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"He has credentials now. All right? You can only be a revolutionary if you've been sent to Siberia by the secret police. All right?..."
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"...It was clearly a Mossad operation. A lot of the instigators, provocateurs, were paid by Mossad and the Iranians cracked down very hard on..."
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"...effective playbook of using propaganda, of using spies, of using saboteurs, provocateurs, in order to stir up discontent among the population and in order..."
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