V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:LS/v26
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

EXTRACTS FROM “VORWÄRTS” ON THE FALSIFICATION OF POPULAR REPRESENTATION

“Vorwärts.” February 21, 1905.

St. Petersburg, February 17. (Own corr.)

At the present time everybody is awaiting the convocation of a Zemsky Sobor, i.e., a falsification of popular representation, carried out under an archaeological cloak....

...Suvorin senior, the well-known director of the despicable *Novoye Vremya*, is now conducting, evidently on the instructions of the monarchists, a tremendous newspaper campaign in favour of “popular” representation of the archaic type, which is to be built on the estate principle. The rich big landowners, the rich merchants and the conservative kulaks are to form this representation. The trump card which the government wants to play is the conservative and egoistic kulak....

Quoted from the article “Die Revolution in Russland” (“The Revolution in Russia”) in No. 44 of *Vorwärts* of February 21, 1905.