The Rise and Fall of the Nihilists

It probably started in 1855, about six years before the surfs were freed. The bulk of them were this class called the rasnocincy which could most easily translate at the time to the lower middle class or the classless people. Everything about this subculture was rooted in the fact that we are science nerds. We are intelligentsia. It's like if the hippies were just nerds. They were actually revolutionary subcultural. But the subculture itself got them facing constant repression because they were wearing the wrong clothes and basically scaring people by their existence.