"The Cause of the People") was a Russian-language newspaper founded in Geneva, Switzerland, after the congress of the League of Peace and Freedom in 1867 by a group of exiled Russian revolutionaries.
The circle involved in the writing of the newspaper wished to promote the First International in Russia, having in common with its founders their support of the Polish insurgents against the tyranny of the Russian Empire.
Other Russians living on the banks of Lake Geneva agreed to join the initiative: Zoya Obolenskaya, the Polish soldier and journalist Walery Mroczkowski, Victor and Ekaterina Barteneva, Nikolai and Natalia Utin, the publisher Mikhail Elpidin, and Olga Levashova (sister-in-law of Zhukovsky).
Bakunin prevented Nikolai Utin from participating in the first edition of the newspaper,[1] which was published 1 September 1868 by Elpidin's press in Geneva.
[5] The goal of Narodnoye delo was to demonstrate that though the peasant struggle in Russia took different forms from those described by Marx, it nevertheless promoted the same collectivization of the means of production.