Petrokevitch and the Russian Revolutionary Movement

The fight between the radicals and the reactionaries is where all the real political action was going to be. Many radicals saw the proposed political constitution as simply a yoke that rich landowners were trying to slip on the people. In march 18 79, petrok vitch organized the first semi clandestine meeting of what would become called the zemstva union,. A small group of constitutionalists who had a list of political and social demands. No at the top of this list was, of course, a constitution, an the standard list of liberal civil rights.