V. I.

Lenin

At the evening sitting on April 2, the Octobrist
L. G. Lyuts said, when objecting to the working-class deputies’ demand for
a discussion of the question asked about the Lena events [1] :

“ Two days from now will be the anniversary of the events
on the Lena. Apparently the Social-Democrats are trying to
budirovat the feelings of the workers in order to encourage
excesses....”

The French word bouder , rendered in Russian by budirovat means to sulk , to pout . Mr. Lyuts,
apparently, derives budirovat from budorazhit (excite)
or, perhaps, vozbudit (in cite). How the bourgeois deputies and
the bourgeois press laughed when a peasant in the First Duma used the
foreign word “prerogatives” in the sense of barriers (“ rogatki ” in Russ.— Ed .)! The mistake was all the more
pardonable since various prerogatives enjoyed by the ruling classes are
actually barriers in Russian life. Mr. Lyuts’ educational attainments,
however, did not “ vozbudirovat ” the laughter of his educated
friends or their press.

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Notes:
[1]
The reference is to the shooting of unarmed workers in the Lena
Goldfields (Siberia) on April 4 (17), 1912.

News of the bloody drama in the Lena Goldfields aroused the wrath of
the working class throughout Russia; there were street demonstrations,
meetings and protest strikes all over the country. The Social-Democratic
Duma group submitted a question to the tsarist government on the Lena
shootings. The insolent answer given by the Tsar’s Minister Makarov: “So
it has been, and so it will be in the future” served to increase the
indignation of the workers. Up to 300,000 workers took part in strikes of
protest against the Lena shootings. The strikes merged with the May Day
strikes in which 400,000 workers took part.