The experiment of Zubatov. Legalization of the labor movement in the early years of XX in

"In 1901–1904 The alternative to the revolutionary struggle was the creation of legal associations of workers. In the monograph by S.V. Medvedev proposes a comprehensive analysis of the attempt to solve the working issue in Moscow, Minsk and Odessa, and the personality of S.V. Zubatova, the main ideologist of the experiment on the introduction of secret agents of the police into the working environment, carried out against the backdrop of the conflict of the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of the Interior. Thanks to attracting a wide array of archival sources, many of which are introduced into scientific circulation for the first time, the reader will imagine an atmosphere of universal suspicion of the early twentieth century, will learn interesting details from the life of representatives of the revolutionary underground, the working environment and, of course, secret employees of the Moscow security department. The book is recommended to both specialists and the widest audience. "