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EDITS IN THE MANUSCRIPT OF THE ARTICLE “THE CONSTITUTIONAL BAZAAR” \
.V 10 “NPERED”, 50 (17) APRIL 1905.
^Pli: * What is Bulygin doing?"]
[l u l s g and and with to "cons and w u t s and l · . Or:]
Ko ne ti tuccioiny bazaar.
Bulygin is now engaged, as they rightly say in St. Petersburg aristocratic circles, in gaining time. He is trying to delay, as much as possible, [the notorious ©] promised p a r e m reforms and reduce them to
[meaningless] trifles, not at all reducing [the real] power of the autocratic tsar and the autocratic bureaucracy. Instead of a constitution, he is preparing, as we have already indicated once in Vpered, a consultative chamber without any rights. Now we have
[extremely interesting
Factual] confirmation of what we have said - namely, the text of the Bulygin project, published [yesterday, April 14 new style,]
by the German liberal newspaper Vossische Zeitung...
...It is hardly possible to show more clearly the true aspirations
π the class basis of the notorious ** above the classes standing tsarist power. It is hardly possible to imagine better material
for lesson lessons on universal, direct and equal suffrage with secret ballot.
It is also interesting to compare this landlord-official
cheeky "constitution" with yesterday's message from an
English newspaper *** about Russian political parties. With the exception
* Soch. VII, 236 - 239. Ed.
** The word "notorious" replaced by Olminsky:
"standing as ifb. Ed.
The words "yesterday's message from an English newspaper" were replaced by Olminsky "the latest news". Ed.
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THE CONSTITUTIONAL BAZAAR

with the exception of extreme parties, terrorists and reactionaries * the correspondent
(who, obviously, moves in "society" and therefore black people in the genus p abochih does not see **) counts three
parties ...
[There is a lot of plausibility in this whole message.] The Bulygin
project, apparently, and there is project conservative parties.
Osvobozhdenets asks
[(not yet printed abroad, printed in Russia by Moscow printers: two chambers, the upper - elected from the zemstvos, the lower - universal suffrage)] OCHSIH POXOX lia program "radical
or constitutional (in fact, not at all radical and badly-copstituciopnon) parties .». . .
*
After the word "reactionaries" Olminsky inserted: "one English". Ed.
** The word "sees" Olmnpsky changed to "sees". Ed.