This document discusses different ideological groups in late 19th century Russia including Westernizers who wanted Russia to adopt Western political and economic models, Slavophiles who felt Russia should embrace its unique culture, and revolutionary socialists who wanted socialist revolution and a transition to Marxism. It also mentions populists, nihilists, anarchists, and different Marxist socialist factions that emerged like the Mensheviks and Bolsheviks.

1. Eric Beckman
Anoka HS, MN

2. Westernizers
Russia is between East
and West, and should aim Slavophiles
to be more Western
Russia is unique and should
embrace its distinctive culture

3. • Free politics
Liberal Capitalism • Constitutional
Democrats
• Industrial development
Revolutionary • Marxism: Social
Democrats
Socialism • Rejected Liberalism and
the Old Regime
• Literature & Languages
Western Culture • Musical forms
Russian Culture • Orthodoxy
as backwards • Peasantry

4. • Folk tales, songs, and wisdom
Peasantry • Religious faith
• Natural socialists
• True Christianity
Orthodoxy • Savior to Europe
• Order
Monarchy • Paternalism
• Tradition
Revolutionary • Go to the people
Socialism • Socialist Revolutionaries

7.  Pictures by Viktor
Hartmann
 Piano music by Modest
Mussorgsky
 Orchestrated by
others, most famously
by Maurice Ravel
Mussorgsky

10. Nationalism
Peasantry
Proletariat
Intelligentsia

11. Populists
• People’s Will
• Socialist Revolutionaries
Nihilists
Anarchists
Marxist Socialists
• Social Democrats
Menshiviki
Bolsheviki