By reenacting an important moment of historical revolution, the collective Chto Delat? (What is to Be Done?) demonstrates how the socio-political concerns that incited protest in the past continue to erode participatory democracy today. Exactly one hundred years after the first Russian Revolution, the collective organized a restaging of the uprising at Narva Gate in St. Petersberg. Like the strikers in 1905, Chto Delat?’s participants were also low-income workers facing labor exploitation. They took to the streets wearing the sandwich boards they would normally bear to advertise local businesses. However, instead of business advertisements, these boards were re-inscribed with quotes from Bertolt Brecht’s poem “In Praise of Dialectics”– a powerful call to action that encourages oppressed peoples to take charge of their own liberation. This reenactment thus forces passersby to confront not only the history of a failed revolution aimed at toppling government, but also the legacy of this failure today.