A mix of Russian people below the level of gentry - sons of priests and petty officials that formed the backbone of the Russian intelegensia
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Which new philosiphies (Weltanschauung) influenced the intelegensia in the 1860s and 70s?
Critical realism and nihilism
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Which radical academic work identified the revolutionary Intellegencia as the "new people"?
Chernyshevsky's 1863 'What is to be done?'
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Which intelectual novel carved the difference between the new intellegensia and the old order?
Turgenev's Fathers and sons 1862
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where were most of the new Intellegensia based?
in major cities and universities
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Which was the first organisation to promise to wage battle against the autocracy in the name of the people?
Young Russia (1862)
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Who caused the fires of St Petersburg in 1862 and made attempts on the life of the tsar in 1866?
radical students
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Who were the Narodnichestvo?
a movment of the 1970's that sought to inspire the peasants into bloody Jacqueire against the autocracy
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Who were the Narodnichestvo inspired by?
Peter Lavrov's 'Historical Letters' (1869) emphasizing the duty of the intellegensia, who had aquired their education at the expense of the common people - to repay their debt through education of the peasentry. he stressed gradualism and propaganda.
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Who replaced Lavrov as the insperation of the Narodnichestvo to form 'going to the people' (1874-6)
The anarchist teachings of M. Bakunin and P. Kropotkin who believed the peasentry to be innately revolutionary and only needed encouragement.
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What were the tactics used by 'going to the people'?
2500 young intelectuals went to peasent villages - some to simply help the people such as doctors , nurses and shopkeepers and others who wished to ferment revolution
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Card 2
Front
Which new philosiphies (Weltanschauung) influenced the intelegensia in the 1860s and 70s?
Back
Critical realism and nihilism
Card 3
Front
Which radical academic work identified the revolutionary Intellegencia as the "new people"?
Back
Card 4
Front
Which intelectual novel carved the difference between the new intellegensia and the old order?
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