The Russian workers could not play the role of revolutionary vanguard and hegemon in the revolutionary movement because owing to a number of social, economic, cultural and psychological factors they did not form a social class and did not possess a proletarian socialist world view. In a situation when their fundamental, basic needs could not be met the workers developed a resentful, emotionally negative state of frustration, discontent, disenchantment, anxiety, irritation and even despair, which often manifested itself in aggressive behavior. Frustrated, poorly educated people were suggestible and easy to manipulate, prone to be drawn into protest political movements becoming easy prey for various political and religious prophets who promised a quick change for the better.