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

NOTES53933by the major banks. Published in Petrograd from December 1916.After the bourgeois- democratic revolution in February 1917, itconducted a slanderous campaign against the Bolsheviks. Leninsaid it was “one of the rottenest bourgeois newspapers”. Closeddown by the Revolutionary Military Committee on October 25(November 7), 1917. p. 50Bulygin Duma—a consultative “representative institution”, whichthe tsarist government promised to convene in 1905. The draftlaw on the institution of a consultative Duma and the election lawwere worked out by a commission chaired by the Minister of theInterior Bulygin, and published on August 6 (19), 1905. TheBolsheviks boycotted the Duma which the Government failed toconvoke: it was swept away by the general political strike inOctober. p. 5434See Note 29. p. 553536Stolypin, Pyotr Arkadyevich (1862- 1911)—tsarist statesman andbig landowner. From 1906 to 1911, Chairman of the Council ofMinisters and Minister of the Interior. His name applies to a periodof fierce political reaction in which he tried to shore up the autocraticregime by putting through some reforms from above in theinterests of the bourgeoisie and the landowners. p. 55Tit Titych—a merchant from Ostrovsky’s comedy ShoulderingAnother’s Troubles, personifying the petty tyranny of the rich. p. 5637See Note 2. p. 56383940Izvestia Vserossiiskogo Soveta Krestyanskikh Deputatov (News ofthe All- Russia Soviet of Peasants’ Deputies)—a daily, the officialorgan of the All- Russia Soviet of Peasants’ Deputies, publishedin Petrograd from May 9 (22) to December 1917. It expressed theviews of the Right wing of the Socialist- Revolutionary Party.It met the October Socialist Revolution with hostility and wasclosed down for counter-revolutionary propaganda. p. 64Russkoye Slovo (Russian Word)—a daily published in Moscowfrom 1895 (a pilot issue was published in 1894). Ostensibly independent,it took a moderately liberal attitude in the interests of theRussian bourgeoisie. In 1917, the paper sided with the bourgeoisProvisional Government and bitterly attacked Lenin and theBolshevik Party.In November 1917, it was closed down for carrying slanderousanti- Soviet reports. From January 1918, it appeared for a timeunder the name of Novoye Slovo (New Word) and Nashe Slovo(Our Word). It was finally closed down in July 1918. p. 66A fortified area on the Finnish border which with Kronstadt protectedthe approaches to Petrograd. p. 70