"We need to go to the countryside, to the villages, to the peasants. We must explain to them that the Soviet government is the only government that frees them from exploitation."

"The more conscious the people are, the more clearly they see that the old order must be destroyed."

"The art of any propagandist and agitator consists in his ability to find the best means of influencing any given audience, by presenting a definite truth in a most convincing way, by relating it to th…"

"History knows all sorts of metamorphoses. Relying on the reliability of one's convictions, on the honesty of one's intentions, on the sincerity of one's declarations — this is not a serious attitude t…"

"We are not utopians, we do not 'dream' of dispensing at once with all administration, with all subordination. These anarchist dreams, based upon a misunderstanding of the tasks of the proletarian dict…"