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Educated Deputies
At the evening sitting on April 2, the Octobrist L. G. Lyuts said, when objecting to the working-class deputiesâ demand for a discussion of the question asked about the Lena events[1]:
âTwo days from now will be the anniversary of the events on the Lena. Apparently the Social-Democrats are trying to budirovat the feelings of the workers in order to encourage excesses....â
The French word bouder, rendered in Russian by budirovat means to sulk, to pout. Mr. Lyuts, apparently, derives budirovat from budorazhit (excite) or, perhaps, vozbudit (in cite). How the bourgeois deputies and the bourgeois press laughed when a peasant in the First Duma used the foreign word âprerogativesâ in the sense of barriers (ârogatkiâ in Russ.âEd.)! The mistake was all the more pardonable since various prerogatives enjoyed by the ruling classes are actually barriers in Russian life. Mr. Lyutsâ educational attainments, however, did not âvozbudirovatâ the laughter of his educated friends or their press.
- â The reference is to the shooting of unarmed workers in the Lena Goldfields (Siberia) on April 4 (17), 1912.
News of the bloody drama in the Lena Goldfields aroused the wrath of the working class throughout Russia; there were street demonstrations, meetings and protest strikes all over the country. The Social-Democratic Duma group submitted a question to the tsarist government on the Lena shootings. The insolent answer given by the Tsarâs Minister Makarov: âSo it has been, and so it will be in the futureâ served to increase the indignation of the workers. Up to 300,000 workers took part in strikes of protest against the Lena shootings. The strikes merged with the May Day strikes in which 400,000 workers took part.