V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:LS/v16;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

[October, before 24, 1905. Geneva.]

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The tremendous intensification of the political crisis caused by the partial permission of meetings (in the universities).
Liberal professors and radical students. Liberal-monarchists and revolutionary-republican democracy.
Vossische Zeitung. “Don’t hinder the liberals.” Abwiegler. * 1
How did the workers + revolutionary democrats drive the government into a corner?
By insurrection (offene Revolte etc. cf. Petersburger Zeitung). ** quoted in Frankfurter Zeitung. 12. X Abendblatt.
Workers + revolutionary democrats. Government + liberal-monarchist bourgeoisie. Government’s retreat: opening of the university. “They are afraid” in Petersburg.
Idem — with the law on meetings, with the workers’ congress, etc., to widen the breach. Military preparations for an attack in the future. Cf. Witte (Vossische Zeitung 12 X): awaits the outcome of the struggle.
Likewise in the State Duma: occasions for conflicts and for intensification. Decision by the people in extra-parliamentary struggle. The Duma will run, like Trubetskoy, to beg for freedom of assembly, already won.
Inter arma silent leges.***
Especially note the beginning of military training: 1) defence with revolvers against small forces of troops and retreat before large ones; 2) a concealed barricade on Rozhdestvenka [behind the crowd, désarçonnés plusieurs cazaques] ****

* — commentator. Ed.
** — (open actions, etc. cf. Petersburger Zeitung). Ed.
*** — In time of war the laws are silent. Ed.
**** — several Cossacks thrown from their saddles. Ed.

Temps 15 X, Sunday. In Petersburg wreaths with inscriptions. Among others: “Au champion de la liberté, tombé sur le champ de bataille”!*¹

Latest news:

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1) Moscow University reopened.
2) Political strike in Moscow growing.
3) St. Petersburg students at a large meeting decided to use academic freedom to hold large political meetings within the university walls. The government is in difficulty, afraid to forbid these illegal meetings.
4) Numerous workers’ organisations in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kharkov, Kiev are planning a workers’ congress in Moscow.

On the question of an independent socialist policy. Vossische Zeitung: “don’t hinder the liberals” (students and s.-d.). Contra: they drove the government into a corner. How? By insurrection in Moscow.

A new “push” forward. ibidem congress.

On the occasion of a scrap of bourgeois freedom — be more modest (tone down) in the struggle for proletarian freedom. Use the autonomy of the university not for the autonomy of the revolution and its propaganda, its extension, but for diverting from the revolution to bourgeois “science”.

“Since the revolution is bourgeois, ergo be concerned, be guided in your activity by the consideration of not alienating the bourgeoisie.”

Before the State Duma — no agreements with the Cadets were proposed.

After the State Duma — Parvus + Cherevanin + Martov.²

Before the State Duma — either a revolutionary government, or the “decision” of some representative institution.

After the State Duma — either a “democratic organisation of the people” (Cadets? — s.-d.? or the State Duma.

Again and again the falsity of the words of Osvobozhdeniye: even after the State Duma the same agitation.

When water presses against a dam in spring, a breach outside the sluice (the spillways) is the beginning of a collapse
breach (in the dam): the stream rushes through

1. Facts. Trève. Armistice? No. A halt. Sandepu before Mukden.
2. Partial permission of meetings — tremendous intensification of the crisis — betrayal of the liberals — revolution in the street.

*¹ — “To the champion of freedom, fallen on the field of battle”. Ed.