The Nardoniks (populists)

Question 1

Who were the Narodniks? (populists)

Answer 1

A group of 2000 Young people from the intelligentsia who traveled to the countryside aiming to persuade the peasantry that the future of Russia depended on their development.(development of the peasant commune)

Question 2

who was the key individual who encouraged the group?

Answer 2

Pyotr Lavrov

Question 3

what did they aim to explain?

Answer 3

the resentment felt since Emancipation about the peasant’s lack of land and heavy tax burden they still carried

Question 4

what became known as nardonyism

Answer 4

The idea of “going to the people” became known as Narodnyism

Question 5

what did some nardoniks try do?

Answer 5

tried dressing and talking like peasants

Question 6

How did the peasantry react to the Narodnkis?

Answer 6

with hostility - many of the visitors were reported to authorities

Question 7

why did the peasants react with hostility?

Answer 7

due to the peasants ignorance,superstition, prejudice and deep-rooted loyalty to the tsar

Question 8

what did the peasants loyalty to the tsar mean?

Answer 8

-the incomers (Narodniks) were reported to the authorities

Question 9

how many of them were arrested?

Answer 9

around 1600 of them

Question 10

How successful were the Narodniks in opposition?

Answer 10

-not very successful:
loyal peasants to the tsar reported them and 1600 were arrested
2nd attempt was also unsuccessful and resulted in more arrests and a series of show trials

Question 11

despite its failures the Nardoniks meant that

Answer 11

it helped move radical opposition away from underground meeting rooms and ran into the countryside and made the government more aware of the depth of feeling of its opponents