V. I.   Lenin

The Moscow Elections—Preliminary Results


Published: Zreniye, No. 2, February 4, 1907. Published according to the Zreniye text.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1962, Moscow, Volume 12, pages 81-82.
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Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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The liberal newspapers and those serving the liberals are still vociferating about the Black-Hundred danger in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

To show how utterly false these outcries and phrases are, we give here tables of the results of the Moscow elections so far published in the St. Petersburg press.

For the purpose of comparison we also quote from the newspaper Nasha Zhizn[1] for March 28, 1906, the results of the 1906 elections in Moscow.

The significance of the figures for the two years, which prove and prove again how utterly false are the fables about the “Black-Hundred danger”, is dealt with elsewhere.

Number of votes polled in Moscow in 1907:

??
Moscow Election Wards Const.-Dem. Octobrists Monar-
chists
Left Bloc
Arbat 1,348 514 154 214
Basmannaya 934 462 113 155
City 643 266 107 61
Lefortovo 938 631 244 190
Myasnitskaya 1,331 551 191 191
Prechistenka 1,183 538 161 175
Presnya 1,196 550 187 458
Rogozhskaya 1,565 963 267 286
Serpukhovskaya 469 189 69 101
Sretenka 1,239 403 106 303
Sushchevsky 2,061 700 398 841
Khamovniki 1,011 647 197 297
Yakimanka 1,153 552 171 241
Tverskaya 1,730 680 189 313
Yauza 1,117 299 75 162
Meshchanskaya 1,839 838 262 689
Total, 16 wards 19,757 8,783 2,891 4,677
 
Moscow Election Wards Const.-Dem. Octobrists Monar-
chists
Left Bloc
In 1906
Arbat 1,269 700 ?
Sushchevsky 2,867 930 193
Presnya 1,662 646 150
Prechistenka 1,810 734 ?
Tverskaya 1,810 850 174
City 571 362 50
Sretenka 1,368 640 40
Yauza 600 300 ?
Basmannaya 1,263 507 83
Total, 9 wards 13,220 5,669 690
Same 9 wards in 1907 11,451 4,412 1,490 2,682

Thus, the Moscow elections prove that the stories about the Black-Hundred danger are false. We remind the reader once again that the election figures for St. Petersburg in 1906 prove the same thing:

Voting in St. Petersburg in the Elections to the First Duma
Wards Lowest Cadet
Vote
One Half
of That
Number
Highest
Right Vote
Number of Electors
Admiralty 1,395 697 668 — 5
Alexander-Nevsky 2,929 1,464 1,214 —16
Kazan 2,135 1,067 985 — 9
Narva 3,486 1,743 1,486 —18
Vyborg 1,853 926 652 — 6
Petersburg 4,788 2,394 1,729 —16
Kolomna 2,141 1,070 969 — 9
Moscow 4,937 2,468 2,174 —20
Spassky 4,873 2,436 2,320 —15
Liteiny 3,414 1,707 2,097 +15[2]
Rozhdestvensky 3,241 1,620 2,066 +14
Vasilyevsky Ostrov 3,540 1,770 2,250 +17

Notes

[1] Nasha Zhizn (Our Life)—a liberal daily newspaper published in St. Petersburg from November 6 (19), 1904 to July 11 (24), 1906, with some intervals.

[2] The plus signs in this table indicate the number of electors that could have gone to the Black Hundreds in the event of votes at the   election having been divided between the Cadets and the Left bloc.


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