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

508 NOTES373839merged with the ‘Popular Socialist” party and actively supportedthe bourgeois provisional Government. After the October SocialistRevolution the Trudoviks sided with the bourgeois counterrevolution.p. 68Rech (Speech)—a daily newspaper, the central organ of the CadetParty, published in St. Petersburg from February 23 (March 8),1906, under the actual editorship of P. N. Milyukov and I. V. Hessenand with the close co-operation of M. M. Vinaver, P. D. Dolgorukov,P. B. Struve, and others. The newspaper was closed downby the Revolutionary Military Committee of the Petrograd Sovieton October 26 (November 8), 1917. It was eventually reissued (up toAugust 1918) under various names: Nasha Rech (Our Speech),Svobodnaya Rech (Free Speech), Vek (Century), Novaya Rech(New Speech), and Nash Vek (Our Century). p. 68Council of the United Nobility—a counter-revolutionary organisationof reactionary landlords founded in May 1906 at the First Congressof Delegates of the Gubernia Societies of the Nobility, itexisted up to October 1917. The chief aim of this organisation wasto defend the autocratic regime, landlordism, and the privileges ofthe nobility. The Council was headed by Count A. A. Bobrinsky,Prince N. F. Kasatkin-Rostovsky, Count D. A. Olsufyev,V. M. Purishkevich, and others. Lenin called the Council of theUnited Nobility a “council of united feudalists”. The Councilvirtually became a semi-government body which dictated to thegovernment legislative proposals aimed at defending the interests ofthe feudalists. During the period of the Third Duma many of itsmembers sat on the Council of State and held key positions in theBlack-Hundred organisations. p. 69Popular Socialists—members of the petty-bourgeois TrudovikPopular Socialist Party, which separated from the Right wing of theSocialist-Revolutionary Party in 1906. The P.S.’s stood for partialnationalisation of the land on a redemption basis and thedistribution of the land among the peasants according to the “labourstandard”. They were in favour of a bloc with the Cadets. Lenincalled them “Social-Cadets”, “petty-bourgeois opportunists”, and“Socialist-Revolutionary Mensheviks” who vacillated between theCadets and the S.R.’s, and he emphasised that this party “differsvery little from the Cadets, since it has discarded from itsprogramme both the Republic and the demand for all the land”.The party’s leaders were A. V. Peshekhonov, N. F. Annensky,V. A. Myakotin, and others . After the bourgeois-democratic revolutionof February 1917 the Popular Socialist Party merged with theTrudoviks and actively supported the bourgeois ProvisionalGovernment, in which it was represented. After the OctoberSocialist Revolution the P.S.’s participated in plots and armed actsagainst the Soviets. The party went out of existence during theperiod of foreign military intervention and civil war. p. 73