Group of Narodnik Socialists
Group of Narodnik Socialists | |
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Founded | March 1870 |
Dissolved | September 1872 |
Headquarters | Geneva |
Newspaper | People’s Cause |
Ideology | Populism Marxism Agrarian socialism |
Political position | Left-wing |
International affiliation | International Workingmen's Association |
Movement | Narodniks |
Group of Narodnik Socialists was a group of Russian revolutionary émigrés headed by Nikolai Utin, Anton Trusov , and Victor Bartenev. This group published the magazine Narodnoye Delo (People’s Cause) in Geneva. At the beginning of 1870 it set up the Russian section of the International Workingmen's Association (First International). On March 22, 1870, the General Council of the International accepted the affiliation of the Russian section. At the section’s request, Karl Marx undertook to serve as its representative on the General Council. “I gladly accept the honourable duty that you offer me, that of your representative on the General Council,” wrote Marx on March 24, 1870, to the members of The Committee of the Russian section (Marx-Engels Ausgewahlte Briefe, M.-L. 1934, S. 234).
The members of the Russian section of the First International supported Marx in his struggle against the