Debates on the Narodniks stage of the Russian revolutionary movement in the late 1950s - early 1960s

The debates on Narodniks' heritage within Marxism-Leninism constituted an important part of ideological struggle between conservative and liberal historians of the Soviet period. The opportunity to start debates appeared during the Khrutshev's Thaw that came after the period of Stalinist restrictions that had not allowed historians to study Narodniks as 'enemies to Marxism' The debates became an important sign in the liberated atmosphere of the early 1960s but they resulted in the victory of conservatives.