Free Economic Society
After returning to Russia Struve became one of the editors of the successive Legal Marxist magazines "Novoye Slovo" ("The New Word", 1897), "Nachalo" ("The Beginning", 1899) and "Zhizn" (1899–1901). Struve was also the most popular speaker at the Legal Marxist debates at the Free Economic Society in the late 1890s—early 1900s in spite of his often impenetrable-to-laymen arguments and unkempt appearance. In 1898 Struve wrote the Manifesto of the newly formed Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. However, as he later explained: