Its acceptance of various Bolshevik reforms made it close to the Mladorossi émigrés, but the magazine saw itself as eminently Narodnik, carrying through the ideology of Alexander Herzen and Nikolay Chernyshevsky.
Acceptarea mai multor reforme bolșevice au apropiat-o de emigranții Mladorossi, dar revista s-a considerat eminamente narodnică, preluând ideologia lui Aleksandr Herzen și Nikolai Cernîșevski.