Narodnaya Volya
In June 1883 Narodnaya Volya resumed publication of the underground "Listok Narodnoy Voly" newspaper as a demonstration that the organization was alive. Degayev published an article praising Jewish pogroms and urging the members to incite more pogroms. At the time Narodnaya Volya had an ambivalent opinion about Antisemitism. Some theoreticians applied Marxist analysis and saw pogroms as a manifestation of the class struggle between oppressed peasants and oppressive Jewish petite bourgeoisie. On the other hand, many Narodnaya Volya members saw Jewish pogroms as incited by the tsarist Government and one of the most revolting of their crimes. The question of antisemitism was even more divisive, as many members were ethnic Jews. Richard Pipes speculated that the article was a part of Sudeykin's plan to transform Narodnaya Volya from an anti-government to an ultra-nationalist organisation similar to the later Black Hundreds.