Going to the People

Going to the People

Arrest of a Propagandist, painting by Ilya Repin
Native name	Хождение в народ
Date	1874
Location	Russian Empire
Type	Mass movement
Motive	Populism
Participants	Narodnik students
Outcome	Movement suppressed, participants arrested
Arrests	717[1]
Suspects	1,611[1]
Accused	525[1]

Going to the People (Russian: Хождение в народ, Khozhdeniye v narod) was a populist movement in the Russian Empire. It was largely inspired by the work of Russian theorists such as Mikhail Bakunin and Pyotr Lavrov, who advocated that groups of dedicated revolutionaries could inspire a mass movement to overthrow the ruling class, especially as it concerned the peasantry.^[2] The anarchist Peter Kropotkin called the experience "the mad summer of 1874".^[3]