The People's Will

• In 1879, Land and Liberty split into two groups.

  
  

  The “Black Partition” was led by Georgi Plekhanov and it favoured the longer term tactics being developed through living and working with the peasants.

  
  

  The “People’s Will” was led by Timofei Mikhailov and it favoured the terrorist tactics which aimed to destroy the tsarist autocracy through violence and assassinations.
• In April 1879, Alexander II survived an attempt by the People’s Will to shoot him.
• In December 1879, there was a failed attempt to blow up the Tsar’s train
• In February 1880, a bomb was detonated under the banqueting hall of the Tsar’s Winter Palace that killed 12 people but not the Tsar as he was late to the dinner.