Russian History
Revolutionaries Abroad
Characters
Political Struggle
Going to the People
100

This is the term for the upper bourgeois layers of the Russian peasantry.

Kulaks

100

The Emancipation of Labor group was formed by this person, in this city.

Plekhanov in Geneva

100

Lenin collaborated with this worker to write early agitational leaflets for striking workers

Babushkin

100

Lenin united all of the Russian Marxist study circles into this organization in 1895

The League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class

100

This group carried out the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in March of 1881.

Narodnaya Volya

200

Russian peasants were forced to do this after the abolition of serfdom.

Pay the landlords for the redistributed land

200

The Emancipation of Labor group was mainly responsible for waging fierce ideological struggle against this tendency.

Narodism

200

This Narodnik co-edited the official organ of the tendency, the magazine Russkoye Bogatstvo, which means Russian Wealth.

Mikhailovsky

200

Lenin laid the plan for this illegal newspaper while in exile, and used it to wage struggle against ideological confusion in the revolutionary movement.

Iskra (Spark)

200

The Narodniks saw this social class as the leading force in the revolution against autocracy and for socialism.

Peasants

300

This was the first workers organization formed in Russia, in 1871

The South Russian Worker’s Union of Odessa

300

Name two other members of the Emancipation of Labor group in Geneva

Vera Zasulich, Pavel Axelrod, Vasily Ignatov, Leo Deutsch (left 1884)

300

This happened to all members of the Central Committee elected at the first congress of the RSDLP immediately after the congress ended.

All arrested
300

The first congress of the RSDLP united several Leagues of Struggle along with this nationality-based organization

The Bund

300

The term Narodnik comes from the Russian word “narod”, which means this in English

The people

400

This was the main demand of striking textile workers in 1896, led by the League of Struggle.

Shorter working day (11.5 hours)

400

This journal was the theoretical organ of the Emancipation of Labor group

Zarya (The Dawn)

400

Lenin first used his pen name in this publication

Zarya (1901)

400

This trend of opportunism, which denied the need for a working class party, took hold and dominated Russian Marxist circles while Lenin was in exile.

Economism

400

Norodniks saw this existing social structure as the embryo of socialism in Russia

The peasant commune (mir or obshchina)

500

Before becoming a Marxist, Vera Zasulich was imprisoned and tried for her involvement in this act of Narodnik terrorism.

The shooting of Colonel Fyodor Trepov, the governor of St. Petersburg, in 1878

500

This work of Plekhanov was said by Lenin to have “reared a whole generation of Russian Marxists”

On the Development of the Monistic View of History

500

Peter Struve was an adherent of this ideological tendency

Legal Marxism

500

These were the three main anti-Marxist tendencies that the leaders of the RSDLP fought against

Economism, Legal Marxism and Narodism

500

This early Narodnik wrote the original What is to be done? that inspired Lenin’s work of the same name.

Chernyshevsky