Arizona republican., 1905-05-08
The Certain and Early Re
 generation of Russia
MOVEMENT OF A CENTURY
4 Russian EOblema1 Says That Re- forms Which Have Always Thriysd in Times Of National Disaster Win Succeed With Russian Defeat.

St Petersburg. April I5--(Corres- pondence of the Associased Isr=ssl l- The following interesting article ursr the present political situation iu Eas- sia was written for the Assoclare.l Press by one of the uoz- prominent and active liberals in the erlnlre- He is a large landed proprietor. a mar shal of nobility with a mansion ln St Petersburg. but e istincJly a man Of the provinces He had large sllar- in drafting the famous zemstvo memo rial and his words Wiu have added interest when tt is stated that afler bloody Sunday" when the liberals were talking of a provisional govern ment, his name was on every EH- Should this be a constitution reEIl-ls- in Russia his name and fame wIu bonn large.
 Writing of the present Russiau po- htical movement from the slaudpolat ! of a radical represeu tatlve from tE- | interior of Russia. he says ~u s necessary first to indicate the histarl- cal conditions Of the life of our cr-G- i try, in consequence of which o-r e-o- ! homie and social development are Gls- ] tinguishsd by great irresular.Jy. both as to the time and to extent
 Those districts which have re- mained farthest behind economically are least inclined to yield to che gea- eral political fermentation which is taking hold of the country The ceu- tral agricultural districts or Russla- including the governments or Eal1rz- Tula, Orel. RyaZan and Sirnl lrsz where se~fdom was most pro-lolaic=d. has yielded least to the desrru--ls. and creative forces Of modern ildas-
 trialisn- But the whole extensive ter ritory of the N0lga basin the Nar-1-
 west and Baltic provinces the Cral
 districts and Poland. the whole south
 and the Caucasus-in a word alncs-
 the whole great periphery of the cnun-
 try except the distant and thlnly pop
 ulated borders. advanced. in rhs fas-
 half of the nineteenth century. r.fnlfir
 and decisively along the road of -ar-
 itaiis.ic and industrial dcve1nurrea-
 THE MASS MOVES.
 Greater cOnplexity of life was seat-
 urally accompanied by increased cenl-
 plexity of social relations. the Erouninr of classes. the concentration or pahll-
 forces and the deep stirring og nalI.i- cal seif-cOnscioUsness Now only Cen
 tral Russia. where exists rrac.l-1ilF [ only the two classes-the z=asrt and ignorant peasantry and the nohu.lys-
 true to the traditions or the days af
 serfdOm. hold more aioof fruIn the
 great political movement which has taken possession Cf the remainder uf
 the country. In essence the present political movement in Russia is "a szh- of the advanced classes Of the psarle against the autocratic-b -bureaucrasir
 governmental organization of tae
 country Having grown mp ana
 strengthened itself upon the ca--dlrsgl1
 of serfdom. the Russian bureaucrarF
 has developed to the maximum au the negative qualities which naturally in- here in bureaucracy and has hecc11e , an all-powerful autocratic machine. 5 ''The triumphal march of the Rus ? sian army throughout all Europe was "a school Of political education for the best and most cultured youth es she f better class who found themselves in
 the ranks Of the officers The -lther-
 ators" Of Europe saw with their oa-u
 eyes all the tragedy of their own u1- } sitiOns- They were called. not co Un- crate Europe. but to restore the o,I
 order They saw clearly that it uaa
 not Europe which was in need of rell f liberty. but the Russian people bowel
 beneath the yoke of serrdom. thar
 Russia represented in her goveTurnsu-
 tai system the bulwark of popular ua-
 litical slavery
 LIBERATION OF THE sERFs- . '.The sOciaI-political program o1 ths s Decembrists of 1925 was the iiberafieu = of the peasants from serfdo-n and the n tablishment of a constitutions -uF- 2 ernmental organization It was crush f ed and was wounded by a gloomy thiF- f ty years reaction. during which th- IF movement for freedom was sec-e-lr n kept alive and festered in more or less wide circles of Russian society Bat it i acquired the sad end of the Criureln <. campaign to again arouse opeu |, movement The fau of SebasIopel vras !, the spark which kindled the cou.alo i . energy of discontent ard turned lnaEe
 the secretly matured public foTcs-s- 7 The government cOmprehended an the a gravity of the movement for freesiorr
 and sought to meet ir half way But the dark forces of bureaucratic autoc-
 racy prevented the execution ue the :, program to the end. arrestinE it halg : way. stopping always with haH msas- = ures. The peasants were iiherar,l
 from serfdom- The public Wss Eivrn
 local provincial and municipal self
 government Then follows a lo-E dis v Icussion of the huctuating approach ca = constitutional freedom and the variogs ' but steady students movements Goa - cluding he writes
 ''The fight for popular freedom lrom = the yoke of absOlutisn has a deep rseo- e in Russian history IL has been uasasl e for nearly a hundred years new burn , ing bright in a moment Of high eserr. ii by the best and noblest forces of tre
 nation. again dying out tn the darknesa T of reaction Its first pioneers the De-
 cembrists. were born of the national . upheaval of the war of lSI2
 Another still more striking phe- 's nomenon shows in the strongest utan- II ner the depth and maturity of the h. present political movement It rlu7, e be admitted that in the zenstvo. frr
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