The 90th anniversary of the "case of March 1, 1887", organized by a group of revolutionaries led by Lenin's older brother A. I. Ulyanov, was celebrated. An unsuccessful attempt on the tsar's life led to the complete defeat of the "Terrorist Faction of the Narodnaya Volya Party" that had emerged in November 1886, and the trial that followed soon ended with the death sentence of Ulyanov and four of his comrades who were executed on May 8 (20), 1887 in the Shlisselburg Fortress. Ulyanov entered the history of the liberation struggle against the autocracy not only as one of the leaders of the assassination attempt on Alexander III, prepared under the flag of Narodnaya Volya. He compiled the group's program , one of the most interesting documents of the liberation movement, reflecting the painful search for a correct revolutionary theory in the era of reaction, when "Russian revolutionary thought worked most intensively, creating the foundations of a social-democratic worldview."1 With the emergence of the Emancipation of Labor group and the first social-democratic circles in Russia, Marxism exerted an increasing influence on the revolutionaries of the 1880s, who had to " appeal mainly to the urban and industrial population, and, consequently, give the interests of this population an incomparably wider place in their program."2 . This idea is confirmed by the Ulyanov Group's program document. Its text was practically not used in the works of the pre-October period. Thus, the author of the report on the "March 1, 1887 case", published in the emigrant magazine "Free Russia", V. Burtsev believed that the participants in this case did not proceed from any specific theoretical guidelines, although he noted that they made an attempt to print the program of Group 3 . In the book of gendarme General N. I. Shebeko and Prince N. N. Golitsyn, 4 Ulyanov was called the author of a hectographed program published in Kharkov, which justified the principles of"systematic terror". Indeed, ... Читать далее