Derek Offord. The Russian Revolutionary Movement in the 1880s.

CONTENTS

Preface

Glossary

Map of European Russia in the 1880s

1. RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONARY POPULISM BEFORE 1 MARCH 1881

The theory and spirit of revolutionary Populism

Revolutionary strategies: Lavrov, Bakunin and Tkachov

Revolutionary organisations and activity in the 1870s

The movement from 1879 to 1 March 1881: Chornyy Peredel and Narodnaya Volya

2. NARODNAYA VOLYA AFTER 1 MARCH 1881

The aftermath of assassination

The party regroups its forces

The pogroms and the attitude of Narodnaya Volya towards them

The ascendancy of ‘Jacobinism’ in the Executive Committee and the party’s organisation in the armed forces

The workers’ groups of Narodnaya Volya in St Petersburg and provincial cities

The dispute between the ‘old’ and ‘young’ Narodovoltsy in 1884

Orzhikh’s attempt to rebuild the party in 1885

V. I. Ulyanov and the plot to kill Alexander III in 1887

Attempts to revive Narodnaya Volya in 1888-90

3. ‘POPULISTS’, ‘MILITARISTS’, ‘CONSPIRATORS’ AND OTHER GROUPS IN THE 1880s

Russian culture in the 1880s

‘Militarists’ and student groups in Moscow and St Petersburg

Student groups in Kharkov

Student circles in Kazan and the network of Fokin and Bekaryukov

The student movement and the disturbances in Kazan in 1887

V. I. Ulyanov (Lenin) and his role in the student movement in 1887

The symposium The Social Question compiled by Populists in Kazan

Fokin’s circles in Kiev in the second half of the 1880s

Bekaryukov and workers’ circles in Kharkov and Rostov

4. THE BEGINNINGS OF RUSSIAN SOCIAL DEMOCRACY

Attitudes to Marx and Engels in Russia before the 1880s

Marx’s and Engels’ views on Populism

Plekhanov and the ‘Emancipation of Labour’ group

The Blagoyevtsy

The ‘Morozov strike’ of 1885

Tochissky’s ‘Association of St Petersburg Artisans’

Fedoseyev’s activity in Kazan in 1888-9

V. I. Ulyanov at Kokushkino and in Kazan, 1888-9

The labour movement and student circles in St Petersburg in the late 1880s

Conclusion

Key to abbreviations used in notes and bibliography

Notes

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