ABSTRACT

The Russo-Japanese War-–Fear of a General Strike—Father Gapon —The Patilov Strike—The Gapon Society—January 9th, 1905, and the Workers’ Petition—The Russian Social-Democrats and the Gapon Society—The Commission of Senator Shidlovsky—The Declaration of the Labour Delegation—Banquets of Liberals— The Revolution of 1905—The Characteristic Features of the Russian Labour Movement—The First Soviet of Workers’ Deputies.