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 Rh nihilating the heritage received from the bourgeois regime, of suppressing the ceaselessly repeated attempts of the bourgeoisie to destroy the Soviet power. This task has hitherto taken up most of our attention and prevented us from going about the other task, that of reconstruction.

(Speech at Political Education Conference November 5, 1920—from Soviet Russia, April 30, 1921.)