That needs to be understood. But this time, we need to put the story of emancipation at the center of this narrative, because what really transformed the United States, were not those battles.

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It's in that context that most of the observations we encounter in Russian formalism need to be understood.

我们要从形式角度去理解,俄国的形式主义者。

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