Narodnik
Narodnik, singular for Narodniki in Russian, refers to a loosely connected set of radical democratic and populist circles in the Russian Empire from the 1860s to the 1880s. They maintained that Russia’s path to social change would come from the peasantry rather than from the urban working class or a centralized state, and that ideas and education could awaken a peasant-led transformation.
Core beliefs centered on agrarianism, anti-autocracy, and moral reform. Narodniks criticized serfdom and autocratic rule, promoted
The movement experienced a turning point as the mass campaigns in 1874–1875 led to widespread arrests and
Legacy is mixed. The Narodnik tradition influenced later populist and socialist currents, most notably the Socialist-Revolutionary