The book is dedicated to a previously almost unknown phenomenon - the protest movement of workers in the first decades of the formation of Soviet statehood, chronologically covering events, starting with Vikzhel's ultimatum to create a "homogeneous socialist government" before Stalin's industrialization and the outbreak of World War II. Based on a wide range of sources (from archival materials to periodicals of that time), an extensive panorama of mass demonstrations in Soviet Russia - the USSR is revealed, their causes, dynamics, forms, and influence on the policy of the regime established in the country are analyzed.