Place of publication: Petersburg
Typography: Printing house of a group of populists (narodnikov)
Year of publishing: 1883
Pages and Illustrations: 10 pp.

The rarest underground publication. Anti-government pamphlet duplicated with a hectograph in secret (in an apartment) by a group of members of "Narodnaya Volya" (People’s Will). This small group (names and number of its members remain unknown) operated in the summer of 1883, after the organization "People’s Will" in Russia was almost defeated in 1881–1882. The authors of the pamphlet called on the workers to wage a struggle to ensure that "factories and plants passed into their hands", called for the overthrow of the government. Describing the future of socialist society in typical populist slogans, they wrote that "everyone will work", "land, factories, plants and capital will belong to the people", "work will be done together — by artels — according to the general plan, and products from common storehouses will be distributed fairly and equally between workers ... " The pamphlet is not available in the RSL nor in the NLR, the only known copy is held by the State Archive of the Russian Federation (f. 1741, collection of underground publications, d. 3605). Extremely rare edition.

Place of publication Petersburg
Typography Printing house of a group of populists (narodnikov),
Year of publishing 1883
Pages and Illustrations 10 pp.
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