Gapon's Secret Plan for the Reform of the Russian State

In the spring of 19 o four, gapon received permission to form a new organization that he wanted to officially charter called the assembly of russian factory and mill workers. Gapon promised membership in his groups would be open only to good russians of orthodox faith. And here he exploited anti semitic tropes about foreign agitators, that is, jews, leading good rRussians away from god and the czar. But while he was saying one thing to various officials, he was saying another thing to his top lieutenants. The document was quite a bit more ambitious than what gapon had been telling the authorities. This was a blue print for the wholesale reform of the