V. I. Lenin

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

EXTRACTS FROM “LE TEMPS” ON WITTE’S MANOEUVRES AFTER THE MANIFESTO.

Le Temps, November 10 [1905]. Telegram from our special correspondent. St. Petersburg, November 9.

“Step by step the government yields to public opinion. Today we learn of the resignation of General Trepov, officially confirmed by the chancellery. Tomorrow we shall no doubt have a complete amnesty, and the day after, the abolition of the state of siege and the return of Prince Mirsky, the man of the regime of confidence, to the Ministry of the Interior.

“It is true that much still remains to be done, since complete appeasement cannot come as long as the government delays in recognising the most important of the reformists’ demands, i.e., universal suffrage and national consultation.

“Count Witte has tried to evade these concessions by introducing constitutionalist elements into the new ministry, but Messrs. Eugene Troubetzkoy, Kuzmin-Karavayev, Miliukov and others, to whom he offered portfolios, have refused any such transaction, and Count Witte is obliged to fall back on the anti-democratic minority * personified by Messrs. Dmitri Shipov and Michael Stakhovich.

“Will this be a sufficiently solid support for the long months that separate us from the Duma? One may doubt it. Hence *Rus* persists in recommending Count Witte to surround himself with the counsels of the Moscow congress”...

Congress of Zemstvo members, apparently November 19. Congress of Workers in Moscow, December 15.