N[ew] T[imes] 30.IX.05 "Anxiety" by M. Menshikov.
Beginning of the article.
"This is not yet a fire, but already an undoubted arson, which, unfortunately, is more admired than extinguished. This is not yet a revolution with terror, guillotines, gallows, extermination of people and culture, but already a prologue to revolution, a dangerous ferment, breaking out in a thousand places into flashes of rebellion. 'It is coming,' I argued in April, and since then what terrible strides 'it' has made! Even five years ago it was hard to believe in the imminence of revolution..... I remember the revolutionary ferment beginning from the end of the 1870s. For long decades it was felt that all this was nonsense.... Revolution is impossible as long as the mass of the people is inert..... But over the last decade a whole series of profound calamities — years of famine, epidemics, unsuccessful resettlements, loss of hopes for land settlement — all this has stirred the elemental forces of the people to their very depths. Finally, the shameful war.... more deafeningly than all proclamations and propaganda, shook the people's slumber, forced them to open their eyes. It was precisely during these 1½ years that some terrible turning point in the people's thinking was felt."
and so on.... and at the end about the present "reformist government," its commonality with the people, etc.