Narodniks
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The Narodniks were members of a movement of the Russian Empire intelligentsia in the 1860s and '70s, some of whom became involved in revolutionary agitation against tsarism. Their ideology, known as N
Arrest of a Propagandist (1892) by Ilya Repin
Narodnaya Volya
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Narodnaya Volya was a late 19th-century revolutionary socialist political organization operating in the Russian Empire, which conducted assassinations of government officials in an attempt to overthro
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…scientific theory of Russian economic development". One response to this repression was the formation of Russia's first organized revolutionary party, Narodnaya Volya ("People's Will"), in June 1879. It favoured secret society-led terrorism, justified "as a means of exerting pressure on the government for reform, as…
Boris Kustodiev, Liberation of peasants (1907). Painting of peasants hearing the reading of the emancipation reform of 1861 from the steps of the local manor.
Alexander Dmitrievich Mikhailov (1855–1884), was one of the founders of Zemlya i Volya, predecessor of Narodnaya Volya.
Mark Andreyevich Natanson (1851–1919) was one of the leading members of the Zemlya i Volya.
The assassination of Alexander II of Russia, 1881