Williams, Harold Whitmore (1876-1928) Russia of the Russians - London 1914
I. The grows of Russia
...In the nineties, Social Democrats made their appearance, and attacking the older school of Populist Socialists who pinned their faith to the peasantry, concentrated all their efforts on agitation among the factory workmen. The Zemstvo Liberals groped their way towards organisation, and in 1902 founded in Stutgart a Liberal organ of the type of the Kolokol under the editorship of Peter Struve. A Social Revolutionary party was founded in 1900, and both Social Democrats and Social Revolutionaries formed organisations abroad among the hundreds who had at one time or other escaped from police repression in their native land for political reasons, smuggled their literature into Russia, and carried on conspirative propaganda amongst the workmen and peasantry, and the students in the Universities and technical schools. Terrorist action was renewed in the early years of the present century, and the political police scented revolution everywhere.
...In the nineties, Social Democrats made their appearance, and attacking the older school of Populist Socialists who pinned their faith to the peasantry, concentrated all their efforts on agitation among the factory workmen. The Zemstvo Liberals groped their way towards organisation, and in 1902 founded in Stutgart a Liberal organ of the type of the Kolokol under the editorship of Peter Struve. A Social Revolutionary party was founded in 1900, and both Social Democrats and Social Revolutionaries formed organisations abroad among the hundreds who had at one time or other escaped from police repression in their native land for political reasons, smuggled their literature into Russia, and carried on conspirative propaganda amongst the workmen and peasantry, and the students in the Universities and technical schools. Terrorist action was renewed in the early years of the present century, and the political police scented revolution everywhere.