"No ideal can spring from a soil or seed alien to it; the methods and weapons used for its attainment must be in harmo…"

"In essence, the Intelligentsia is, as a whole, petite bourgeois. But at the same time, it is the bearer of special fu…"

"Lenin was transformed. I was deeply impressed by that concentrated energy with which he spoke, by those piercing eyes…"

"Trotsky's most obvious gifts were his talents as an orator and as a writer. I regard Trotsky as probably the greatest…"

"Zinoviev has always acted as Lenin’s faithful henchman and has followed him everywhere. The Mensheviks have affected …"

"The man was like a diamond, chosen for its absolute hardness to be the axis of some delicate, perpetually revolving p…"

"There is no greater honor than membership in the Communist Party. There is nothing more precious, there can be nothin…"

"Since we are no prophets, none of us can say exactly how many months or years will pass before the victory of the pro…"

"The population of the colonies means nothing but beasts of burden to the gentlemen imperialists. ... The imperialists…"

"Take a walk through the streets and market places of Petrograd and you can really see that every stone is a piece of …"