Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

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

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

That the existence of the Soviet Union has an international revolutionary significance is a commonplace equally recognized by friends and foes.

Without a correct strategy the victory is impossible. But even the most correct strategy cannot give the victory under unfavorable objective conditions.

It is quite clear that the German and Chinese revolutions in case of victory would have changed the face of Europe and Asia, and perhaps of the whole world.

What shall we call an "immediate possibility"? In 1923 the situation in Germany was profoundly revolutionary, but what was lacking for a victorious revolution was a correct strategy.