Narodnaya Volya

Narodnaya Volya

▪ Russian revolutionary organization
English  People's Will , or  People's Freedom 

      19th-century Russian revolutionary organization that regarded terrorist activities as the best means of forcing political reform and overthrowing the tsarist autocracy.

      Narodnaya Volya was organized in 1879 by members of the revolutionary Populist party, Zemlya i Volya (“Land and Freedom”), who were disillusioned by the failure of their efforts to promote social revolution by agitating among peasants. The new group, emphasizing the need for an organized political struggle against the state structure, used terror to force political reform as well as to undermine the state. Led by Andrey I. Zhelyabov and Sofya L. Perovskaya, it elected an executive committee that planned the assassination of government officials, and even of the emperor Alexander II, who was killed by its members on March 1 (March 13, New Style), 1881. The assassins were arrested and hanged. The murder of the emperor stimulated antiterrorist sentiment in Russia, and Narodnaya Volya, its ranks already decimated by mass arrests, collapsed in the following year.

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