Download or read book Land and Freedom written by Deborah Hardy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1987-10-20 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the leading 19th century Russian revolutionary organization, Land and Freedom, during its three brief years of existence and its significance for later Russian history. The book traces the two groups which emerged within Land and Freedom: the populist faction known as the narodniki, dedicated to propagandizing among the peasantry of the villages, and the violent sub-group sometimes called the politiki for whom assassination of government officials and eventually of the tsar himself appeared the sole route to change.