Collected Works of V. I. Lenin - Vol. 26 - From Marx to Mao

NOTES5372223242526400,000 workers responded. Protest meetings and strikes were alsostaged in other cities. p. 33Vendée—a province in France, which was a hotbed of counterrevolutionduring the French bourgeois revolution at the end ofthe 18th century. The backward peasants of the Vendée, who werestrongly influenced by the Catholic clergy, were a tool in the handsof the counter- revolutionaries in their fight against revolutionaryFrance. p. 33Yedinstvo (Unity)—a daily published in Petrograd from March toNovember- 1917, and also in December 1917 and January 1918under other names; edited by Plekhanov. It united the extremeRight- wing group of the Menshevik defencists and gave unconditionalsupport for the bourgeois Provisional Government. It wageda vicious fight against the Bolshevik Party. p. 35Dyen (Day)—a bourgeois- liberal daily published in Petersburgfrom 1912. It had active Menshevik contributors and finally fellinto their hands after the bourgeois- democratic revolution inFebruary 1917. It was closed down by the Revolutionary MilitaryCommittee of the Petrograd Soviet on October 26 (November 8),1917. p. 35Buchanan, George William (1855- 1924)—British diplomat andambassador to Russia (1910- 1918). He helped the reactionaries intheir anti- revolutionary fight and in August 1917 gave support toKornilov’s counter-revolutionary revolt. p. 37Izvestia—a daily newspaper published from February 28 (March 13),1917. It was first issued by the Petrograd Soviet of Workers’ andSoldiers’ Deputies.Following the formation at the First All- Russia Congress ofSoviets, of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviets ofWorkers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies, the paper became the organ of theExecutive, and from August 1 (14) (No. 132) was called the Izvestiaof the Central Executive Committee and the Petrograd Soviet,and from September 29 (October 12) (No. 184), the Izvestia of theCentral Executive Committee of the Soviets. All this time thepaper was under the control of the Mensheviks and Socialist-Revolutionaries and waged a fierce fight against the BolshevikParty.After the Second All- Russia Congress of Soviets, the paper cameunder a new editorial board and became the official organ of theSoviet power. It carried the first major documents adopted bythe Soviet Government, and Lenin’s articles and speeches. Whenthe U.S.S.R. came into being in December 1922, the paper becamethe organ of the Central Executive Committee of the U.S.S.R.and the All- Russia Executive Committee. It was reorganisedunder a decision of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of theU.S.S.R. of January 24, 1938, and since January 26, 1938, has