High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pochvennichestvo (roughly Return to the Soil from почва, pochva, the Russian word for soil) was a late 19th century Russian nativist movement tied in closely with its contemporary ideology, the Slavophile movement. Both were for the complete emancipation of serfdom, and both campaigns stressed a strong desire to return to the idealized past of Russia`s history, and both were driven towards anti-Europeanization. In addition, they also chose a complete rejection of the Nihilist, Classical Liberal, and Marxist movements of the time. The primary focus was instead to change Russian society through the humbling of the self, and social reform through the Russian Orthodox Church, rather than the radical implementations of the intelligentsia.