The state does not function as we desired. A man is at the wheel and seems to lead it, but the car does not drive in the desired direction. It moves as another force wishes.

Recovery proceeding excellently. Am sure that the crushing of the Kazan Czechs and whiteguards, as well as of the kulak extortioners supporting them, will be exemplarily ruthless.

You can become a Communist only when you enrich your mind with a knowledge of all the treasures created by mankind.

Peace, Land, and Bread! All power to the Soviet!

Russians are too kind, they lack the ability to apply determined methods of revolutionary terror.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

Imperialism, in a sense, is the transition stage from capitalism to Socialism. . . . It is capitalism dying, not dead.