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Ferdinand Lassalle

Name: Chekhov Entire
Author: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Lassalle

German socialist theorist and lawyer (1825-1864), founder of the General German Workers' Association, invoked here as shorthand for radical or weighty ideas smuggled under an innocuous signature.

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The Naive Wood-Sprite §5 Lassalle
Ferdinand Lassalle (1825-1864), German socialist theorist and founder of the General German Workers' Association. The joke is that a letter signed 'Lieutenant So-and-so' might really carry the coded ideas of a radical thinker like Lassalle.

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Mentioned in 3 works (3 mentions)

Poems and Dubia (school-age and disputed juvenilia) Juvenilia · 1 mention

§786 Lassalle

The Naive Wood-Sprite Stories · 1 mention

§5 Lassalle

The Wood Demon Plays · 1 mention

§337 Lassalle