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"Apart from the purchase and distribution of products, every consumers’ society shall engage in the sale of local products."

"When that Kerensky of yours reintroduced capital punishment at the front, that was not terror, gentlemen, was it?"

Draft Decision for C.P.C. on 'The Irregular Actions of People’s Commissar for Justice I. Z. Steinberg and Member of the Board of the People’s Commissariat for Justice V. A. Karelin'.

"Only the Soviets of the Ukrainian poor peasants, workers and soldiers could set up a power in the Ukraine under which clashes between fraternal peoples would be impossible."

"The Council of People’s Commissars deems it necessary to declare that these are absolutely false rumours, deliberately and maliciously spread by the enemies of the Soviets of Peasants’, Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies."

Delivered on 18 December, 1917.

"Should we at once undertake intensive agitation against the Germans’ annexationist policy and for a revolutionary war?"

Written in December 16 (29), 1917.

Written December 28 (15), 1917.

"The adoption of the decree is urgent, otherwise opposition and sabotage will ruin us."

"The workers and office employees of the nationalised enterprises must exert every effort and adopt extraordinary measures to improve the organisation of the work, strengthen discipline and raise the productivity of labour."

"The socialist revolution that has begun in Russia is, therefore, only the beginning of the world socialist revolution."