The release of the second edition of the monograph "At the Dawn of the Labor Movement in Russia" is timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the Northern Union of Russian Workers, the first all-Russian workers' organization with a center in St. Petersburg. The monograph thoroughly analyzed all the main directions of development of the working class of Russia in the first decades after the reform, which led to the emergence of the first workers' revolutionaries and culminated in the emergence of a workers' union-proletarian internationalist organization in the capital. The author has revised and significantly supplemented new sections. The book is easy to read; the popularity of the presentation in it is combined with a thorough analysis of numerous extremely interesting documents and a scientific generalization of rich factual material.