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For some time there was a conflict between these two currents of opinion, but the views of Lavroff, which were simply a practical development of academic Nihilism, gained far more adherents than the violent anarchical proposals of Bakunin, and finally the grandiose scheme of realising gradually the Socialist ideal by indoctrinating the masses was adopted with enthusiasm. In St.
Closer Relations with Western Socialism Attempts to Influence the Masses Bakunin and Lavroff "Going in among the People" The Missionaries of Revolutionary Socialism Distinction between Propaganda and Agitation Revolutionary Pamphlets for the Common People Aims and Motives of the Propagandists Failure of Propaganda Energetic Repression Fruitless Attempts at Agitation Proposal to Combine with Liberals Genesis of Terrorism My Personal Relations with the Revolutionists Shadowers and Shadowed A Series of Terrorist Crimes A Revolutionist Congress Unsuccessful Attempts to Assassinate the Tsar Ineffectual Attempt at Conciliation by Loris Melikof Assassination of Alexander II. The Executive Committee Shows Itself Unpractical Widespread Indignation and Severe Repression Temporary Collapse of the Revolutionary Movement A New Revolutionary Movement in Sight.
Lavroff, for example, while agreeing with Bakunin that mere political reforms were of little or no value, and that any genuine improvement in the condition of the working classes could proceed only from economic and social reorganisation, maintained stoutly that the revolution, to be permanent and beneficial, must be accomplished, not by demagogues directing the ignorant masses, but by the people as a whole, after it had been enlightened and instructed as to its true interests.
Over a hundred Russian students were recalled by the Government from Switzerland, in order to save them from the baneful influence of Bakunin, Lavroff, and other noted Socialists, and a large proportion of them joined the ranks of the propagandists.* * Instances of going in among the people had happened as early as 1864, but they did not become frequent till after 1870.
Lavroff, the prophet of the old propaganda, treated the new ideas "with grandfatherly severity," and Tikhomirof, the leading representative of the moribund Narodnaya Volya, which had prepared the acts of terrorism, maintained stoutly that the West European methods recommended by Plekhanof were inapplicable to Russia.
Pike's, but the hands I shot a quick glance to see were not so large as Mr. Pike's. As they passed I looked inquiry to Wada. "He carpenter. He sat second table. His name Sam Lavroff. He come from New York on ship. Steward say he very young for carpenter, maybe twenty- two, three years old."
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