Аннотация:The work is a reproduction of Zelenov’s PhD thesis, supplemented by a preface, separate comments, an index of names mentioned in the book, and a list of works by V. I. Nevskii (published and unpublished both). The interest of the historian to the mentioned personality is quite understandable. Vladimir Nevskii, who had been a member of the RSDLP since 1897, witnessed the revolutionary events in Russia in 1905 and 1917, and then wrote a number of books and articles devoted to the history of the labor movement and the genesis of the Soviets in 1905.