“A country of inveterate, backwoods, thick-headed, egotistical philistines, who have brought their “civilisation” with them from England and keep it to themselves like a dog in a manger.”
“Snobbishness of the population: servility towards the aristocracy”
Very prescient, as usual, Lenin!
iirc it’s directly from his notebook/journal, so it’s not an offical publication, so whomever put this in this format tried to sorta give it a similar layout to his scribbling in a page/adding notes in the margins.