In Memory of Comrade Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov

Памяти Председателя ВЦИК товарища Я. М. Свердлова (Ленин)
 * Recorded: End of March 1919; Published according to the gramophone records
 * Translated: George Hanna
 * Source: http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1919/mar/x03.htm

All those who have worked day after day with Comrade Sverdlov, now realise full well that it was his exceptional organising talent which ensured for us that of which we have been so proud, and justly proud. He made it possible for us to carry on united, efficient, organised activities worthy of the organised proletarian masses, without which we could not have achieved success, and which answered fully the requirements of the proletarian revolution. The memory of Comrade Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov will serve not only as a symbol of the revolutionary's devotion to his cause, not only as the model of how to combine a practical, sober mind, practical ability, the closest contact with the masses and ability to guide them, but also a pledge that ever-growing masses of proletarians will march forward to the complete victory of the communist revolution.