ABSTRACT
The People's Will was dead. Its actual demise was hastened by an outside provocation-virus that entered its bloodstream, but in fact it was already doomed by its congenital disease, terrorism. The reaction of a leading representative of the younger generation of revolutionaries, the poet Peter Yakubovich, was typical: "Those political exiles have been discredited by allowing the Degayev affair to develop; they should have the elementary decency to separate themselves from any activities in Russia and to seek oblivion." Abroad Tikhomirov still had not given up hope of breathing new life into the corpse of the People's Will. Most of the veterans of Populism supported Russia's war effort after 1914, in glaring contrast to Lenin and his party. But Morozov again outdid the others, visiting the front lines and lecturing the troops on patriotic subjects.
