Though their movement achieved little in its own time, the Narodniks were in many ways the intellectual and political forebears of the socialist revolutionaries who went on to greatly influence Russian history in the 20th century.
Iako je njihov pokret postigao malo u njihovom vremenu, narodniksi su na mnogo načina intelektualni i politički preci socijalista koji su postigli veliki uticaj na rusku istoriju u dvadesetom veku.