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What Are The Most Alienating Moments In Herzen's Life?
The most Alienating moments in Herzen’s life came after his time at university. His contact with authority and those responsible for law and order was nothing more then a display of human caprice, fear, and arbitrary desires to use control. Herzen’s outlandish conviction for the events that transpired at a dinner party he did not attend was enough to firmly alienate him from all forms of Russian structure. Herzen failed to comply with the aristocratic belief system around him. He neither devotedly served the tsar militarily or sought the destruction of those opposed to the system. But how could he? From his perspective, the state behaved abominably continually regardless of his behavior. Herzen was allowed to return to Moscow after eight years

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