Date: 1905-01-05
Source: ru:LS/v38

Ad 2 — the naval war is over; the fleet has been shattered, Port Arthur is lost beyond redemption, and with it, Kurapatkin4 is likewise doomed to failure.
… | a new mobilization! …
Prepare for a fresh, decisive offensive—rise up once more.
“We have not yet had time to fully develop our ideas about the ‘independent power’ of the democratic intelligentsia, which has begun to speak so freely in our legal press about everything… even about the inappropriateness of class struggle…”
1 “The Economist” — an English weekly journal devoted to economic and political affairs; published in London since 1843; the organ of the large industrial bourgeoisie.
2 “The Times” — a daily newspaper founded in London in 1785; one of the leading conservative newspapers of the English bourgeoisie.
The excerpt mentioned here is absent from the Central Party Archive of the Institute of Marxism–Leninism under the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
3 The draft for the article “Autocracy and the Proletariat” was penned on the reverse side of a sheet containing excerpts from “The Economist” dated December 24, 1904—prior to the issuance of the Tsar’s decree of December 12 (25).
The article “Autocracy and the Proletariat” was printed in No. 1 of the newspaper “Vpered” on December 22, 1904 (January 4, 1905) (see V. I. Lenin, Complete Collected Works, Volume 9, pp. 126–136).
4 A. N. Kurapatkin was a Tsarist general. During the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, he served as Commander-in-Chief of the Russian land forces—and later of all Russian armed forces in the Far East—where he proved himself to be a weak-willed and utterly inept military leader.
LETTER TO NEFEDOV 1
5/J [1905]
Dear Comrade! We have received your address for correspondence.
You have likely already been informed from Bern that the majority have begun publishing their own organ, “Vpered”2. The first issue will appear tomorrow.
We would like to establish direct communication with you.
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