1905 Russian Revolution

They were not allowed to publish either books or newspapers in the Ukrainian language, and this language was expelled from all public and private schools.

This condition continued until the Great Russian Revolution in 1906, which gave some national liberty to the Ukrainians.

The development of Ukrainian people in Austria was a thorn in the sides of the Russian nationalists, who under the guidance of Count Bobrinsky began a strong agitation with Russia, looking to the institution of war with Austria in order to seize Galicia and to destroy the sole center of culture of the Ukrainians.

This agitation, as we now see, has borne fruits, and what these poor oppressed but enlightened people are now suffering at the hands of Russia on the territory seized by the Russians are daily reported in the newspapers.

The smaller nationalities were to be forced to abandon their separate nationalism and were to be made Russians, but even the Russian knout was unable to bring about the Russianizing of the smaller nationalities.

Revolution of 1905 Ten years ago, this struggle between the Russians and the center of the empire and the small nationalities on the outskirts had already reached such dimensions that a catastrophe seemed to be the only possible outlet.

What is really known in history as the Russian Revolution of 1905 was not really a revolution of the Great Russians against the Tsar, but a revolution of the small Russian nationalities against the rulers.

The so-called liberal parties in Russia consist either of members of the small nationalities or of the new Russian proletariat that was created artificially by the policy of Count Witte.

THE REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA by Peter Kropotkin.

The Russian Revolution has lately entered into a new phase.

Dark gloom hung about the country during the months of July to April.

Now it is all bright hopes owing to the unexpected results of the Duma elections all turning in favor of the radicals.

The most daring speculator on the stock exchange loses heart when he sees the moving spirit of the bonds in stocks disappear.

Indeed, the entire humbug of so-called values ceases to exist as soon as the sole real value, the blood and nerves of the human system, stop their activity, labor.

the russian revolutionary movement for instance has become a perilous menace to russian autocracy it has made the russian czar tremble more violently since the working men and the peasants have awakened the consciousness of their own economic power that has been the case during the last fifty years the numerous strikes the peasant revolts and the labor uprisings are fated to bring about the downfall of the barbaric russian regime far quicker than all the efforts of the liberals can ever accomplish was one of the first russians to realize how far-reaching labor and its influence can be no wonder he always hastened to insure the russian creditors whenever he went begging for a new loan that the industrial conditions were in perfect order Labor supports society.

If society is unwilling to assign to labor its proper place, the people have the right to withdraw their support and use their best efforts in an endeavor to create a new form of social life.

By Various.

an open letter by voltairine de claire philadelphia pennsylvania august nineteen o six maxim gorky new york city my right to address you is that i have felt the best that your soul has felt and loved you for your voice that cried out of the deeps and that not less have i felt the shame and degradation over your conduct as a weak and shambling creeper since you have been in america hedged about like the russian czar by those who have used you and fooled you seeker for the gifts of those who have spit in your face insulter of those to whom you once belonged hedger and trimmer to the rotten bourgeoisie of america for the dollars you hope to get from them for the russian revolution you have not known even how to hedge and trim and some one should tell you so are you he who wrote the apotheosis of the tramp you who in this city sat in the bellevue stratford hotel surrounded by the vulgar god of modern riches paid for by whom by those who are down in the depths where you once were in the closed circle which has kept away the honest light of truth from you and reflected your image in the magnifying glass of hero-worship you have not heard or seen the truth about yourself to tell you that truth that is why i write in what character did you come here Did you come here as a man or as a representative of the Russian Revolution? you have acted as neither one nor the other.

If you came here as a man, perfectly free and responsible to no one, then when puritanic hypocrisy grew morally indignant at your personal relations, why did you not once and for all say, I despise your marriage law, your marriage prostitution, your lying morality? myself and my beloved are above you but you tried to creep behind a pretence of legality you hung on to the skirts of the respectability which flouted you and her after an attack like that you should have stayed in the open like a man but you went and hid like a coward again if you were of the people truly and in the depths of you and free to act as you pleased why did you please to go to the richest hotels and sit with the bourgeois why when the poverty-stricken russian jews who and who alone have given nine-tenths of the money contributed to the russian revolution from america when they wrote and told you your prices were too high for them to hear your lecture did you answer i am here to collect money not to be stared at you would have had twice the money at half the price have you then learned so soon the art of playing the lion at two-dollar banquets and scorning the staircase whereby you climbed it is said by your apologists among them some of those who sat at the banquet with you that your anomalous position was due not to yourself but to your having fallen into the hands of committees and lickspittles

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In the name of manhood, are you nothing at all yourself? do you not know when you are in surroundings incompatible with the character of one devoted to the cause of human not russian only liberty are you such a helpless baby that you cannot assert yourself and tread a self-respecting path can you sit at the board with those who eat the flesh and drink the blood of the workers and not know what you are doing you did that here in philadelphia and you left mademoiselle andreeva in new york or they would not have let you into that same bellevue stratford shame on you but perhaps you came here not as a man but as a delegate then why in the name of common sense did you not learn the nature of the people with whom you had to deal and act with some sort of diplomacy if you wanted the money of the american bourgeoisie why did you not study them first why did you act like a blunderbuss and begin by outraging the first article in their creed that is let a man keep his illicit relations secret why did you not master the psychology of the american journalist before you walked near his traps why did you play your cards so stupidly as to fall foul of metropolitan newspaper jealousy before you had a single thousand of all that money you wanted to get for russia if you undertook the errand of a diplomat why did you not learn the business of a diplomat finally whether as a man or as a representative what lying spirit put it in your mouth to call the russian czar an anarchist to decry people who whether right or wrong in their beliefs have fought and are fighting tyranny in every land whether russia or america people who have felt the lash and iron who have gone to the scaffold the guillotine and the garotte for proclaiming freedom of all the tyranny of none you cannot be so ignorant as not to know who peter kropotkin is and what he teaches and you know it has as much in common with czarism as light has with darkness is this then again a piece of your diplomacy do you throw mud where all the world throws mud in order to get dollars again do you want to help the russian revolution at the expense of truth of justice to those to whom it is popular to be unjust we the anarchists of america have been ever the first to welcome every dawnbreaker over the darkness of russian tyranny for years we have given our work and our money what little we had to push the cause of freedom there as here and everywhere we will continue to do so no matter what you say of us but if you choose to blacken us to misrepresent us expect from us the contempt of honest men for liars i have written with the bitterness of one who has had i will not say an idol shattered but something akin to it i thought you were a fearless man a true child of the people and you are weak and characterless as a daughter of silk and velvet at the end of the bitterness comes an all-surgeant wish oh that he might yet shake them all off strike out a line clean as an arrow-path and walk in it among his own people the poor the outcasts the tramps we would forget it all these shameful days this disgusting