In the appendix to my History of the Russian Revolution I give a detailed and documented study of the ideas of the Bolshevik party on the October revolution. This study, I hope, will make it impossible in the future to ascribe to [Vladimir] Lenin the theory of Socialism in a single country.

The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.

Our differences with [Joseph] Stalin are entirely of a strategical character.

Under all conditions, well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.

Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely.

I feel here that this time they have succeeded.

I wrote a study about this question, The Lessons of October, which served as a pretext for my elimination from the government.