WE, THE NARODNIKS(1)

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WE, THE NARODNIKS: RUSSIAN
POPULISM, POLITICAL
PROPAGANDA, AND THE PRESS
IN THE 19TH CENTURY
RAFIZA VARÃO

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Main topics
Social media like instrumental a
propaganda
Narodniks as the first media
propagandists
Failures and successes

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Narodniks and the press
The first opposition movement using the tools of
print propaganda
Ideas that interested the intelligentsia
Agitation among the peasants and “going to the
people”
The importance of Truth
A. Herzen

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Failures and changes
Misunderstanding of the nature of propaganda
Non-acceptance of propaganda by peasants
The direction of propaganda for the elite and the intelligentsia

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Conclusions
Merging media and
propaganda
Narodniks was the first
opposition media movement
The Narodniks media
company is similar to populist
companies today

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