English Explanatory Dictionary

Narodnik

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A member of 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.

Word forms

Narodnik Narodniks

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian наро́дник (naródnik), from наро́д (naród, “people, nation”) + -ник (-nik).

Related words

Narodnism
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