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On the Death of Trubetskoi
Published: First published in 1926 in Lenin Miscellany V. Published according to the manuscript.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1972, Moscow, Volume 9, page 375.
The liberal Frankfurter Zeitung was highly indignant at the consistently revolutionary resolution adopted by the Moscow students, who demanded that a constituent assembly be convened not by the tsar, not by the State Duma, and not even (let not the comrades of the new Iskra get wrathful at this!) by a âdemocratic organisation of the peopleâ, but by a provisional revolutionary government. In this connection the liberal German stockbrokers bewailed the immaturityâ of the students, etc. This very same paper now carries a telegram about Trubetskoiâs death (Abendblatt, October 13) and remarks: âIt is possible that they had treated him (.Trubetskoi) to a scene at the Ministry of Public Education.â
Poor Trubetskoi! To aim at liberty for the people and to die of a âsceneâ in a tsarist ministerâs antechamber.... We are prepared to admit that this is too cruel a punishment even for a Russian liberal. Only, would it not be better and more dignified, gentlemen, for the supporters of popular liberty to discontinue all dealings with the government of butchers and spies? Is it not better to fall in a straightforward, honest, open street fightingâfighting which enlightens and educates the peopleâagainst vipers without whose destruction genuine liberty is impossible, rather than to die of âscenesâ while con versing with the Trepovs and their contemptible lackeys?