Download or read book Law and Disorder on the Narova River written by Reginald E. Zelnik and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reginald Zelnik uses a single episode—a militant strike at the Kreenholm factory, Europe's largest textile plant—to explore the broad historical moment. In examining this crucial event of Russian history he sheds fresh light on local power relations, high politics in St. Petersburg, controversies over the rule of law, and the origins of the Russian labor movement. Zelnik sees this pivotal moment in Russian labor history as the beginning step in the series of conflicts that eventually led to the upheavals of the early twentieth century.