A. State repression (300 years of Romanovs!)
B.Late industrial development
C. Appeal of Marxism

II. Early Signs of a Labor Movement

A. Study circles
B. Strikes and labor unrest
C. From experience to organization? Or vice versa?

1. Union of Struggle for the Emancipation of Labor (1895)
2. Russian Social Democratic Labor Party and "Economism"

III. Questions of Leadership

A. Iskra (The Spark) (Plekhanov, Lenin, Martov)
B. What Is To Be Done? (1902)

IV. Revolutionary Activism

A. Mensheviks vs. Bolsheviks
B. 1905 Revolution