Russian sociologist, modern liberal Narodnik theorist, literary critic. Born into a noble official family of Meshevsk, Luca Province, Russia. Mikhaylovsky studied in St. Petersburg Mining Institute. He began to engage in literary activities in 1860 and became an influential figure among the radical writers at that time. In 1868, he began to write for the journal of Notes on the Fatherland, joined the ranks of revolutionary Narodnism, and later became the editor of this journal. In the early 1870s, he took part in the struggle against serfdom and Tsarist autocracy and also began began to tweak his original ideas of Narodnism, such that two groups of Narodniks emerged: the so-called “Critical Narodniks” and “Doctrinaire Narodniks”. Critical Narodniks followed Mikhaylovsky…
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