Lenin

n October 1905, Russia was at the peak of the ultra upsurge. The proletariat brush away the Bulygin Duma and drew the mass of the people into an open debate against the autocracy. In October 1907, we are apparently at the lowest ebb off of the open mass struggle. But the distributor point of decline that zeal in after the defeat of December 1905 brought with it not but a flowering of constitutional illusions, but a substitute shattering of these illusions. After the dissolution of the two Dumas and the coup détat of June 3, the Third Duma, which is to be convened, clearly puts an end to the block of belief in peaceful cohabitation between the autocracy and fashionable representation and ushers in a new epoch in the development of the revolution.

At a moment like the present, a comparison between the revolution and counter-revolution in Russia, between the period of revolutionary onslaught (1905) and that of counter-revolutionary playing with a constitution (1906 and 1907) suggests itself as a matter of course. Such a comparison is silent in any attempt to define a policy-making line for the immediate future. Contrasting errors of the revolution or revolutionary illusions with positive constitutional work is the keynote of present-day political literature. The Cadets shout well-nigh it at their pre-election meetings.



The liberal press chants, howls, and rants about it. We pose here Mr. Struve, vehemently and spite largey venting his nuisance on the revolutionaries because hopes of a compromise have totally collapsed. We have here Milyukov, who, for all his mincing manners and Jesuitism, has been forced by events to arrive at the clear,accurate andabove alltruthful rumor: the enemies are on the left. We have here publicists in the vein of Tovarishch, such as Kuskova, Smirnov, Plekhanov, Gorn, Yordansky, Cherevanin, and others who denounce the October-December struggle as folly, and more or less openly   advocate a democratic coalition with the Cadets. The real...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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