The Narodniks, or Populists, were a movement of Russian intellectuals in the 1860s and 1870s who believed that Russia could reach socialism through the peasant village commune, without going through capitalism. Thinkers such as Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Pyotr Lavrov and Alexander Herzen influenced them. In the summer of 1874, thousands of young people went to the countryside in a movement called going to the people, to educate and win over the peasants, but the peasants were suspicious and the police arrested many. Some turned to terrorism, and the group People's Will assassinated Tsar Alexander II in 1881. The movement was repressed, but its ideas lived on in the Socialist Revolutionary Party.
Before and after
- 18 September 1860Battle of Castelfidardo
- 21 September 1860Death of Arthur Schopenhauer
- 2 October 1860Construction of Mariinsky Theatre
- 1861Founding of Crystal Palace F.C.
- 1861Rise of Narodniks
- 1861Maxwell's equations
- 1861Discovery of rubidium
- 1861Discovery of thallium
- 1861The first Archaeopteryx skeleton is found
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The era
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