Try this quiz on what you have learned about the Revolutionary Groups.

1 To what social class did the Populist revolutionaries belong? The peasants The nobility and wealthy middle-class The workers 2 Populists believed in a peasant form of socialism. This meant that: peasants would leave the land a socialist government would own all of the land land would be re-distributed from the landowners to the peasants and the government would be based upon the existing structure of the peasants communes or mir. 3 Populist ideas were based upon the philosophies of: Slavophiles Westernisers 4 The Populist movement split in the late 1870s because: their attempt to get the peasants to rise up against the Tsar had failed they lost interest in revolution the government put them all into prison 5 The Black Reparation group was made up from those Populists who believed that: violence was the best way to force the Tsar to introduce reforms reforms could be won through peaceful means such as the pressure from the zemstva and other moderate groups.