Iosif Ivanovich Kablits (russian: Ка́блиц, Ио́сиф Ива́нович, 12 July 1848 – 16 October 1893) was a Russian revolutionary activist, later sociologist and publicist, writing under the pseudonym Yuzov (Юзов).Iosif Kablits
at the Great Russian Encyclopedia (Большая российская энциклопедия) Born on 12 July 1848 in the village of Trebeshovo,

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to a noble

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family, Kablitz studied law at the Saint Vladimir University in

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in 1866-1872. In 1874 in

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

he formed an underground circle of Mikhail Bakunin's followers and for a while propagated the idea of storming the

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and assassinating the Tzar family. In 1875 he had to leave the country and spent some time abroad so as to avoid the arrest. In the late 1870s Kablitz drifted towards the political center, became a member of the

narodnik The Narodniks (russian: народники, ) were a politically conscious movement of the Russian intelligentsia in the 1860s and 1870s, some of whom became involved in revolutionary agitation against tsarism. Their ideology, known as Narodism, ...

movement and started writing political and economical essays, mostly for ''Slovo'' and '' Nedelya''. Kablitz's best known books are "Russian Dissidents. Old Believers and Spiritual Christians" (Русские диссиденты: Староверы и духовные христиане. 1881), "The Foundations of the Narodnik Movement" (Основы народничества, 1882) and "The Intelligentsia and the People in Russia's Social Life" (Интеллигенция и народ в общественной жизни России, 1885). Regarding the

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as the basis for the rural economics in Russia, he championed the concept of peasant

obschina Obshchina ( rus, община, p=ɐpˈɕːinə, literally "commune") or mir (russian: мир, literally "society", among other meanings), or selskoye obshchestvo (russian: сельское общество, literally "rural community", official ...

and criticized the

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for selfishness, individualism and its inability to work among and with the people. In 1886–1893 he served at the Russian State Control.Иосиф Иванович Каблиц
at the Russian Philosophy Encyclopedia, 2014 / Русская философия. Энциклопедия. Изд. второе, доработанное и дополненное. Под общей редакцией М.А. Маслина. Сост. П.П. Апрышко, А.П. Поляков. – М., 2014, с. 256-257. Kablitz died in Saint Petersburg on 16 October 1893.

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