The All-Russian Social-Revolutionary Organization ( Muscovites Circle ) is a group of revolutionary narodniks from intellectuals and workers in Moscow , which for the first time began active agitation among the workers. Workers populists considered mediators between the intelligentsia and the peasants [1] .
History
The group was born in 1874 in Zurich . In early 1875, the organization began to work energetically, and a group of intellectuals and progressive workers united in a revolutionary populist group [2] .
The group consisted of 50 people: I. S. Dzhabadari , G. F. Zdanovich , A. O. Lukashevich, P. A. Alekseev , I. V. Barinov, N. Vasiliev [2] .
Members of the circle tried to form a strong association. They called for the overthrow of the current regime and the introduction of political freedoms. They spread their ideas mainly in the working environment in large cities of the Russian Empire: Moscow , Tula , Kiev , Odessa . For this purpose, the members of the group S.I. Bardin , B.A. Kaminskaya, L.N. Figner arranged for the factory, where they formed circles of 5-7 workers, they were prepared for circulation in the village, where they acquainted the inhabitants with the ideas of the organization [2 ] .
In April 1875 the circle was opened and by the autumn of 1875 the organization was destroyed. From February 21 to March 14, 1877, members of the group were convicted of the process of 50 [2] . The majority were exiled to Siberia, three were acquitted, and Sidoratsky G. P. was sentenced to 6 weeks in a strait-house.
Notes
- ↑ V. A. Fedorov. History of Russia 1861-1917
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 The Great Soviet Encyclopedia. - Moscow: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978.