Imperial Russia
Outline #15
Professor Knight

The Revolutionary Movement: 1861-1881

I.  Structures of Revolution
	The Legal Press
		Sovremennik (The Contemporary)
			Nikolai Chernyshevskii, Nikolai Dobroliubov
		Russkoe slovo (The Russian Word)
			Dmitrii Pisarev
	The Emigré Press
		Alexander Herzen
	The Student Circle
		Student disorders of 1861-1862
	The Underground
		Nechaev Circle

II.  Nihilists
	Dmitrii Pisarev embraces Basarov
	"Thinking Proletarians", "Conscious Individuals"
	The Nihilist Lifestyle
	Faith in Science, Utilitarianism

III.  Populists
	Chernyshevskii's "What is to be Done?" (1865)
		Rakhmanov: The Revolutionary Saint
	Idealization of Peasant Commune
	Petr Lavrov--Historical Letters (1869)
		Repentant Noblemen
	Mikhail Bakunin
		Peasants as instinctive revolutionaries
	Movement "To the People" (1874)
	Land and Liberty (Populist Party)
	Group Trials of Populists 

IV.  Terrorists
	Ishutin Circle (Moscow mid 1860s)
	Dmitrii Karakozov attempt to shoot Alexander II (1866)
	Petr Tkachev (Small party of dedicated revolutionaries)
	Vera Zasulich
	People's Will
	Assassination of Alexander II, March 1, 1881.