Look back at history - those who guided the revolution in the time of its culmination never kept their leading positions long after the turning point.

It is also false that the revolution ripens and comes to development only in the national soil.

[Joseph] Stalin closes the exposition of these [Leon Trotsky] ideas with the words, "Such are in general the characteristic features of [Vladimir] Lenin's conception of the proletarian revolution."

Dialectical thought is related to vulgar thinking in the same way that a motion picture is related to a still photograph. The motion picture does not outlaw the still photograph but combines a series of them according to the laws of motion.

The Soviet State does not need either illusions or camouflage. It can claim only that world authority which is confirmed by the facts.

From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.

[Vladimir] Lenin died in January, 1924; three months later [Joseph] Stalin expounded in writing Lenin's conception of the proletarian revolution.