"Трудовой народ" как объект идеологического воздействия неонароднических партий начала ХХ века

The relevance of the study is due to the insufficient coverage in modern historical literature of a number of those aspects of the activities of the parties of democratic socialism, which relate to the nature of the interaction of these parties with the subject of their political interest and social concern - the working masses of the city and, in particular, the countryside. Perhaps this issue is not so large as to claim the title of ‘fundamental’ - it is not directly related to the ideological struggle in the party elites, but it does illustrate the work processes that were going on within the Narodnik parties at all levels - from theoretical leaders to activists of grassroots organizations. The Narodnik movement at the beginning of the twentieth century was represented by the parties of the Socialist Revolutionaries (an association - 1901-1902, organizational design - the end of 1905) and people’s socialists (idea of creation - 1905, organizational design - 1906). It considers the mechanism by which the Narodnik parties at the beginning of the twentieth century determine their ‘target audience’ -the working population, which includes workers, the labor peasantry, and the labor intelligentsia...