The Going to the People

In the summer of 18 74, we get this famous event called the going to the people. Thousands of young nerotist radicals spontaneously left their homes and jobs and universities in the major cities; they fanned out to go live among the people. The villagers turned out to be dull, conservative and very suspicious of these strange men and women showing up one day spouting all kinds of heretical nonsense. Many peasants just arrested the interlopers and handed them over to the authorities. Over about two years, something like 16 hundred people were arrested and held on the charge of being uno vaguely suspicious. In 18 76, a new revolutionary party called land and liberty was founded. They took their