A wonderful account of Bolshevik work with unemployed in the years surrounding the 1905 Revolution printed by Workers Library in the early years of the Great Depression and mass unemployment in the US.

Unemployed Councils in St. Petersburg in 1906 by Sergei Vasil’evich Malyshev. Workers Library Publishers, New York. 1931.

Contents: Biographical Note, Mass Unemployment and the Organization of the Council, Starvation among the Unemployed Increases, How the Unemployed Council was Organized, The Unemployed Attack the St. Petersburg City Duma, The Mensheviks Fight against the Unemployed Organizations, The First Organization of the Unemployed in the St. Petersburg City Duma, At the Round Table with the Bourgeoisie, The City Duma Finances Strikes, Organization of Public Work Delayed, A New Delay, The Unemployed Invade the Duma a Third Time, The Alleged Arming of the Workers, Organization of Work. 51 pages.

Workers Library Publishers replaced Daily Workers Publishers as the main pamphlet printing house of the Communist Party in 1927. International Publishers was originally meant to translate works into English, but became the CP’s main book publisher.

PDF of full pamphlet: http://www.fau.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/fau%3A4475/datastream/OBJ/download/Unemployed_councils_in_St__Petersburg_in_1906.pdf