Who might be interested in this book? Everyone. To everyone who took to the streets of Russian cities and protested in the 90s and 2000s. To everyone alive, thinking, thirsting for change, who each in their own way risked something (job, freedom, health, life) in street demonstrations, clashes with the police, single pickets, actions of solidarity with detainees. To everyone who cares, who participated in protest camps (environmental and political) with the hope that just a little bit more we will achieve a turning point. But we didn't achieve it. Now, at the beginning of 2014, the situation seems much bleaker than in 2013. That is why the book should attract the attention of a caring reader. In lively and understandable language, the author tells the story of social protest on the planet, talks about the attempts of states to subjugate and suppress activists when they were especially close to victory, debunks the myth that only “peaceful”, “non-violent” social struggle is possible. The author shows the severity and irreconcilability of the contradictions between the pacifist protest of the privileged classes and the decisive popular struggle, using a wide range of tactics.