ABSTRACT
Narodnichestvo, or Russian populism, was an extremely influential intellectual, political, social and cultural movement which dominated Russian political debate in the second half of the nineteenth century.1 Its adherents opposed the Tsarist autocracy as well as the idea of the necessary development of capitalism in Russia. They instead called for a broad social revolution to usher in a socialist future based on the popular institutions and beliefs of the mass of Russian people, the peasantry or narod. This worldview was held by a wide range of prominent thinkers, writers, publicists, economists and revolutionaries including Alexander Herzen (1812-70), Nikolai Chernyshevskii (1828-89), Petr Tkachev (1844-85), Nikolai Nekrasov (1821-78), Petr Lavrov (1823-1900), Nikolai Mikhailovskii (1842-1904), Gleb Uspenskii (1843-1902), Nikolai Zlatovratskii (1845-1911), Vasilii Vorontsov (1847-1918) and Nikolai Danielson (1844-1918).
