Collected Works of V. I. Lenin - Vol. 13 - From Marx to Mao

502 NOTES12131415An analysis of the Congress is given in Lenin’s pamphlet Reporton the Unity Congress of the R.S.D.L.P. (See present edition, Vol.10, pp. 317-82.) p. 27Dubasov—the Governor-General of Moscow who suppressed theMoscow armed uprising in December 1905.Stolypin—Russian Prime Minister. p. 29Cadets—(abbreviated) members of the Constitutional-DemocraticParty, the chief party of the liberal-monarchist bourgeoisie inRussia. Founded in October 1905, its membership was made up ofrepresentatives of the bourgeoisie, Zemstvo leaders of the landowningclass, and bourgeois intellectuals. Leading personalities ofthe party were P. N. Milyukov, S. A. Muromtsev, V. A. Maklakov,A. I. Shingarev, P. B. Struve, and F. I. Rodichev, among others. Tohoodwink the working people the Cadets called themselves the“Party of People’s Freedom”. Actually, they did not go beyond thedemand for a constitutional monarchy. They considered it theirchief aim to combat the revolutionary movement, and sought toshare the power with the tsar and the feudal landlords. During theFirst World War the Cadets actively supported the tsaristgovernment’s aggressive foreign policy. During the bourgeoisdemocraticrevolution of February 1917 they tried their hardest tosave the monarchy. They used their key positions in the bourgeoisProvisional Government to pursue a counter-revolutionary policyopposed to the interests of the people, but favouring the U.S.,British, and French imperialists. After the victory of the OctoberRevolution the Cadets came out as implacable enemies of theSoviet power. They took part in all the counter-revolutionary armedactions and campaigns of the interventionists. Living abroad asémigrés after the defeat of the interventionists and whiteguards, theCadets did not cease their anti-Soviet counter-revolutionaryactivities. p. 30Tovarishch (The Comrade)—a bourgeois daily published in St.Petersburg from March 15 (28), 1906 to December 30, 1907 (January12, 1908). Though formally not the organ of any particular partyit was in fact the mouthpiece of the Left Cadets. Active contributorswere S. N. Prokopovich and Y. D. Kuskova. The newspaperalso published contributions from Mensheviks. p. 31Leaflet of the C.C.—“Letter to Party Organisations” No. 1 writtenin connection with the coup d’état of June 3. “The proletariat andits spokesman—revolutionary Social-Democracy,” the letterstates, “cannot leave the government’s act of violence unansweredand unprotested. Social-Democracy does not give up the idea ofcontinuing and developing the revolution.” Without calling forimmediate action the C.C. of the R.S.D.L.P. appealed to the Partyorganisations to “support and go the whole way in developing massmovements as they arise, and in cases where the active and decisivesupport of the broad masses can be counted on, to immediately takeupon themselves the initiative in the movement and notify the C.C.about it”. p. 35