Revolutions are always verbose.

Only in the Fall of 1924 did [Joseph] Stalin discover that it is especially Russia, as distinguished from other countries, which can by its own forces build up a socialist society.

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

Once again, he who ignores the problems of revolutionary strategy would do better not to talk about revolutions at all.

Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.

With all due respect to all philistines, the dictatorship of the proletariat does just consist in "giving a hiding" to the classes that were previously supreme, before forcing them to recognize the new order and to submit to it.

Simultaneously the Left Opposition in the course of several years carried on a struggle against the Stalinists in favor of collectivization.