Narodnaya Volya
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Narodnaja Wolja ( Russian Народная воля for people's will and at the same time people's freedom ) was a social revolutionary secret society in the Russian Empire , which organized the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881 .
Narodnaja Wolja emerged from the split in the Land and Will (or Land and Freedom ; Russian Semlja i volja ) movement in 1879 , which wanted to bring the revolution to the people (“ Volkstümler ”). The goals of the organization were the overthrow of the tsar , free and general elections, representatives of the people and freedom of opinion, press and conscience and a constitution . She was responsible for the bomb assassination on March 13, 1881 , the Tsar Alexander II. In Saint Petersburg on Griboyedov Canal died, the site of the later Church of the Resurrection .
Through an informant on the organization’s executive committee, Sergei Degayev , who had been recruited by the Petersburg inspector Georgi Sudeikin , the Ochrana succeeded in dismantling printing works and bomb laboratories as well as the entire organization. Many of the members have been executed , exiled or died during years of imprisonment .
Members have included Stepan Khalturin , Vera Figner , Mikhail Frolenko , Nikolai Young , Nikolai Kibalchich , Sofya Perovskaya , Józef Pilsudski , Alexander Solovyov , Aaron Sundelewitsch , Arkadi Tyrkow , Alexander Ulyanov and Ludmila Wolkenstein .
The Soviet writer Yuri Trifonov processed the history of Narodowolts after archival studies in the 1973 historical novel Impatience (Нетерпение).
literature
- Astrid von Borcke: Violence and Terror in the Revolutionary Narodničestvo. The Narodnaja volja party (1879–1883). On the origin and typology of political terror in Russia in the 19th century (= reports of the Federal Institute for Eastern Scientific and International Studies. 1979, 35, ISSN 0435-7183 ). Federal Institute for Eastern and International Studies, Cologne 1979.
- Григорий Семенович Кан: "Народная воля". Идеология и лидеры. Пробел, Москва 1997, ISBN 5-89346-006-5 (German: "Narodnaja Wolja". Ideology and leader. ).
