Circle of Tchaikovsky

Circle of Tchaikovsky
Чайковцы
LeaderNikolai Tchaikovsky
Founded1868 (1868)
Dissolved1874 (1874)
HeadquartersSt. Petersburg
IdeologyPopulism
Revolutionary socialism
Political positionLeft-wing to far-left
MovementNarodniks

The Circle of Tchaikovsky, also known as Tchaikovtsy/Chaikovtsy (Russian: Чайковцы), or the Grand Propaganda Society (Russian: Большое общество пропаганды, Bolshoye obshchestvo propagandy) was a Russian literary society for self-education and a revolutionary organization of the Narodniks in the early 1870s. It was named after Nikolai Tchaikovsky, one of its prominent members.