A.M. Lbov – the chieftain of "forest brotherhood"
During the life Alexander Lbov and his comrades were living legends of the Ural folk. After the death they were officially and considerably insulted by the tsar, secretary-generals and presidents. And only this censure in the spirit of the "general line of the Party" is encouraged and printed many years without change in its essence. Lbovschina as a phenomenon was a result of misunderstanding of deep class contradictions. Spontaneous protest in response to political tyranny and tsarist repression degenerated into an ordinary terrorist combat initiative, that is typical to petit bourgeois mentality. Transplantation of the socialist-revolutionary ideology on the ground of rebellion and anarchy led to a useless self-abnegation of the detached from the mass movement and embarked on the path of robbery squads. For the bourgeoisie, bureaucracy, guardians of Russian regimes and their assorted newspaper and academic stooges carrying to Russian peasants and workers prodigiousness and degeneration, Lbov and his comrades have been appearing for the century as a gang of expropriators, robbers and thieves.