The
Narodniks (, ) were a socially conscious movement of the
Russian middle class in the 1860s and 1870s, some of whom became involved in revolutionary agitation against the
Tsardom. Their ideology was known as
Narodnichestvo (народничество), from the Russian народ,
narod, "people, folk", so it is sometimes translated as "peopleism" or more commonly "
populism". A common slogan among the Narodniks was "хождение в народ",
khozhdeniye v narod, "going to the people". Though their movement achieved little in its own time, the Narodniks were in many ways the intellectual and political forebears of the
socialist revolutionaries who went on to greatly influence Russian history in the 20th century.