Date: 1905
Source: ru:LS/v16

LENIN COLLECTION

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• VOTER COUNTS ACCORDING TO THE “VÖSSISCHE ZEITUNG.”
Vossische Zeitung [Correspondence] from St. Petersburg, dated August 22—
(Elections to the State Duma.)
Electors
Odessa Population
Kiev
»
Moscow
St. Petersburg
(TOTAL MY)
U
405,000 Electors
7,000
217,000
»
7,000
1,050,000
»
11,000
1,500,000
»
9,500
3,202,000
3*.ü00
*In No. 181 of “Rus’” dated August 20(7), a manifesto was published, dated August 19(G), concerning the State Duma, along with the Regulations on the State Duma and the schedule specifying the number of members of the State Duma by guberniya, oblast, and city. Lenin drew all the numerical data for his calculations regarding electors from this source. Also in that issue of “Rus’,” an unsigned article titled “On the New Path” appeared. Lenin’s excerpts refer to the following two paragraphs of this article: a) “We are prepared to say that such a boycott would, above all, be a boycott directed against the peasantry—and against ourselves. After all, Russia is far from sharing the hasty opinion recently expressed by the new Moscow Governor-General, Drnovoy, that the work of nation-building has already been completed and that there is, in essence, nothing more to discuss”; and b) “…we need only reiterate the highly cogent arguments put forward by Vestnik Evropy: that awareness of the imperfections inherent in the electoral system is perfectly compatible with participation in a representative assembly elected according to that very same system… Indeed, one can find countless examples of this in Western European history. Incidentally, the journal recalls how, under Louis-Philippe, Garibaldi-Pages, the senior officers, and Ledru-Rollin—staunch advocates of universal suffrage—sat, and with great benefit, in a chamber composed of large taxpayers.”

ON THE BIOGRAPHY OF STEPHAN BORN

* ON THE BIOGRAPHY OF STEPHAN BORN
AUGUST, AFTER THE 26TH, 1905, GENEVA.
In the first edition of the pamphlet “Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution,” Lenin made a mistake: he mistook Born’s real surname—Buttermilch—for a pseudonym. This minor error prompted B. Koltsov in

“Iskra,” in its issue of August 26(43), to devote an entire feuilleton to the topic, “How Lenin Deepened Engels.” In the 1908 edition of the pamphlet (Works, Vol. III, p. 426), Lenin corrected his own error and satirized Koltsov. Evidently, it was in connection with this incident that Lenin gathered a substantial portion of the biographical information about Born available in the literature. The documents b, c, and d printed below contain biographical notes on Born, while the appendix includes excerpts from a letter written by O. G. Lifshits from Berlin, signed by her. Gnedyich—among other things—addresses the same question.

a.

* EXCERPTS AND NOTES ON THE BOOK “ERINNERUNGEN EINES ACHTUNDVIERZIGERS VON STEPHAN BORN. DRITTE AUFLAGE. LEIPZIG. 1898” (((REMINISCENCES OF A FORTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD PARTICIPANT NAMED STEPHAN BORN. THIRD EDITION. LEIPZIG 1898)).
S / 32. Born had two elder brothers; the younger became a physician in the provinces, while the elder lived in Berlin. What was the elder brother’s profession?
43 u. ff.** A very close friendship with Engels.
51. Born was never a “servant of party politics.”
The banalities about equality—about equal rights in the bourgeois-democratic spirit. People, they say, are not equal, etc. *
Engels, after all, was a wealthy bourgeois son.
63–4. In Switzerland (in 1847), Born wrote and personally typeset a pamphlet—though he had even forgotten its title—in defense of communism against Karl Heinzen.
S. 67: Marx paid him a compliment regarding this pamphlet.
* — page. Ed.
** — and the following.
Ed.
*** — a slave to party politics.
Ed.

Later, Born began to doubt the path of communism: the banalities* (S. 65) about “the mechanical understanding of history (i.e., the materialist understanding of history), etc.”
S. 66 — against the abolition of private property:
“Human nature,” he argued, would rise up and respond with a “terrible revolution.”
110 u. ff. The most vulgar criticism of the Democratic Party in 1848—against the struggle for a republic, the mad war with Russia, etc.
146 ff. Polemics with Engels. Engels was angry that I had acted without consulting him.
147: Grateful to Mehring for defending me against Engels!!
151. As a liberal, Born reflected on the abolition of private
property.
152. Engels harbored “uncertainty”*—false predictions.
153. Hospitals, “communal cheese factories,” etc., would not yet abolish private property
— many social democrats shared this view.
154: S. d. will gradually transform from social revolutionaries into social reformers/*
165–166: The Program of the Workers’ Union of 1848. At the forefront were cooperative societies, etc. Yet Born’s defense of this program ultimately undermined it.
|
idem]*** 168
|
180 — A detailed analysis of Verbrüderung by Georg Adler. History of the First Socio-Political Movement. Breslau. 1885.****
196 — venomous words from Engels directed at Born.*****
201 — Born participated in the government commission tasked with selecting representatives from industry,
o.

In the catalog of the British Museum, Born Stephan (among other items):
* — “uncertainty.”
Ed.
— s. d. will gradually transform from social revolutionaries into*
social reformers.
Ed.
*** — likewise. Ed.
— the brotherhood advocated by Georg Adler. The History of the First Socio-Political Movement.
Ed.
— Engels’s hostile remarks about Born. Ed.

ON THE BIOGRAPHY OF STEPHAN BORN

See Schwitzerland. Public Lectures Delivered in Switzerland (Vol. 3, 6, 7, 9) and Published with the Kind Assistance of Messrs. E. Desor... Z. Hirzel... G. Kinkel... A. Müller and L. Pütmeyer. Basel. 1871—ongoing.
Temme (Jodocus, Daedalus, Hubertus). Memories... Published by St. Born. Leipzig. 1883.*

Biographical Yearbook and German Obituary Collection, published
by Anton Bettelheim. Vol.
V (BrI.
1903). P. 11.** Berlin (Georg
Beimer).
Born, Stephan. Dr. phil., formerly Professor of Modern Literary History at the University of Basel, editor; Lissa.
December 28, 1824.
t Basel 4 V. — B. J. III, 62; Brümmer l 5,***
487; Kl. 20, 139 (with W) Pedagogical Archive 1898, 682 (E. Hermann); Kukula 73. Suppl. 28 (W); Hinrichsen2 *** 163.****
In this (V) volume of the biography of V. Liebknecht (Ad. Braun).
g.

Universal Library and Swiss Review. Vol. XI. 1898.
p. 647: brief (2–3 lines)
notes on the deceased.
Among other things, “Stephan Born, the dean of the Swiss press,
*
— Switzerland. Public lectures delivered in Switzerland (Vol. 3, 6, 7, 9) and published with the gracious support of Messrs. E. Desor... L. Hirzel... G. Kinkel... A. Müller and L. Pütmeyer. Basel. 1871—continuing.
Temme’s Memories... published by St. Born. Leipzig. 1883. Ed.
** In the book Taucher (Biographical Notes]—Swiss Professors, etc.*
[biographical index—of Swiss professors and the like. Ed.] there is nothing about Born.
List of the Deceased. 1898.
*** A symbolic marker in the index. Ed.
**** — The Biographical Yearbook and Collection of German Obituaries, published by Anton Bettelheim. Vol. V (Berlin, 1903). P. 11. Berlin
(Georg Reimer).
List of the Deceased for 1898.
Born, Stephan. Dr. of Philosophy. Professor of Modern Literature at
the University of Basel, editor; born in Lissa on December 28, 1824.
Died in Basel on May 4, 1898—Biographical Yearbook III, 62; Brümmer 1/487; Literary Calendar 20, 139 (with references to Born’s works). Pedagogical Archive 1898, 682 (E. Hermann), Kukula 73. Supplement 28 (with references to Born’s works), Hinrichsen 163. Ed.