Hjalmar Branting 1909: Some of the Events About the Tsar's Visit to Stockholm in June 1909 Have Not Received Much Attention in History Writing
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Comments: Hjalmar Branting 1909: Some of the events about the Tsar's visit to Stockholm in June 1909 have not received much attention in history writing. Branting was strong in his rhetoric against the Tsar and the self-ruler of the "Land of the thousand gallows." Liberal opinion remained quite silent and in the Riksdag, the Social Democrats were barely represented. One exception was the liberal Eliel Löfgren who wrote in Dagens Nyheter about the absent legal process when "8 Russian Anarchists" were expelled a couple of weeks after the Tsar's visit. The circumstances surrounding the murder of the high marine officer in Kungsträdgården by suicide shooter Wång were taken up by a journalist in Dagens Nyheter a couple of years later with special attention to ochrana's supposed police provocator. Branting rhetoric in July 1909 was concentrating on police chief Lars Stendahl, but no other names in the Swedish police were mentioned, nor tthe colleague who was responsible for the lack of police investigation and expulsion, Carl-Gustaf Lidberg. In the anthology on (... the dangers of the state of the most difficult kind), Håkan Blomqvist tells about the responsible publisher in "Socialdemokraten", Carl Natanael Carleson, who received a hard prison sentence in a trial on freedom of the press, led by Lidberg. The police attorney sat with information he received from Ochrana and could not officially refer to it. Branting may have feared that he himself would be forded to come to the court if he went too far in his criticism of the detective police. Vladimir Burtsev 1909: Burtsev was often sweeping in his criticisms and accusations, but had difficulties in presenting evidence with careful investigations. Something that is impossible for a one-man movement against a whole state police organization with branches in many countries. If Vladimir Burtsev had any further information about Sweden or Finland, it did not appear, and the chance to address it in connection with the Harting-Landesen scandal in France went unnoticed. The blog "Punschverandan", with anarchic tenndency, tried to solve the Hjalmar Wång case at the 100th anniversary of the murder case (and suicide). Unfortunately, the description currently on the "Punschverandan" contains a lot of mistakes and does not address the issue of ochranas provocator. History Professor Dick Harrison described Wang's assassination as a terrorist deed in the summer of 2017. It does not change the fact that it was an inexperienced youth in mental imbalance that held the revolver. Hjalmar Branting 1917-18: Aleksander Kan (The homegrown bolsheviks) explored many new archives, many of them from previously closed Russian archives. They showed that Branting gave support To the Mensheviks and also some social revolutionaries in 1917-18. He took care of Akselrod who came to Stockholm and Social Revolutionaries Nkolaj Roussanov and Vasilij Suchomlin who arrived in Stockholm in May -18. In a few months, they were given the opportunity to publish a news bulletin in German and French. Branting also visited France and England and gave his support for Kerensky. The question of the German money to the Bolsheviks comes up in May 1917 when three leading representatives of the Left Social Democrats attack Branting for ambiguous statements. Branting then hurries to say that there is no correlation between his criticism and the famous Russian journalist Burtsev's attacks against the Bolsheviks. The polemics continued to be tough among the former party mates, but the Bolsheviks managed to get out of their political crisis caused by the german money. Branting's support for Mensheviks and Social Revolutionaries most of all humanitarian efforts and not political option to count on. After December 1918, the Social Democratic Party took a decision not to support any foreign an intervention, the same line that the Mensheviks in Petrograd had always advocated. Vladimir Burtsev and Sergei Cyon are mentioned once more in passing in Kan's book. They ... did their best to expose the Bolsheviks as the death digger of the Russian Revolution and a threat to humanity. Zeth Höglund wrote in Pravda in July 1918 that ... Stockholm had become the centerpiece of the "European fight against Bolshevism "and he demanded a skilled contra propaganda. Homegrown bolsheviks: Zeth Höglund, Fredrik Ström, Carl Natanael Carleson, Carl Lindhagen, Karl Kilbom. The fragmentation of social democracy was nnot caused by the Russian revolution. But it was going to be a watershed, and Aleksandr Kan takes up how closely they cooperated with the Russian Bolsheviks, followed on trips to arrange trade agreements and facilitated diplomacy. Several of them had been close to Branting . Everyone would eventually return to social democracy when the hardline communist international was established..