Western Civilization II / Unit 11 WC2 1021 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Narodniks and the People's Will: A Tsar Assassinated, 1881
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The idea
In spring eighteen seventy-four young radicals went "to the people" to rouse the peasants; the peasants turned them in. Disappointed Narodniks formed the People's Will, hoping a killing would spark a rising. In March eighteen eighty-one they killed Alexander II. No rising came.
In practice
The only tsar assassinated by radicals.
Where people slip
Names are anchor-only; the witness records Lenin's brother's later plot.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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