In the Pravda (November 30th, 1920), Lenin defended the policy of concessions with these expressions:
We have defeated the world bourgeoisie up to the present owing to the fact that they can not unite. Both the Brest-Litovsk and Versailles treaties have tended to keep them apart. A bitter hatred is now growing up between America and Japan. We are utilizing this, and are offering Kamchatka on a long lease, instead of giving it away without payment, considering that Japan has taken away already by military force a large territory in the Far East. …
I must repeat, concessions are a continuation of war on an economic basis but instead of destroying they reconstruct our productivity. They surely will try to deceive us, to evade our laws, but for such purposes there exist our respective institutions, all Russian Extraordinary Commission, Moscow Extraordinary Commission, Provincial Extraordinary Commission, etc., and we are sure that we shall be victorious.
It must be remembered that these Extraordinary Commissions are the official Soviet bodies for enforcing the "red terror."
In his closing speech at the March (1921) Congress of the Russian Communist Party Lenin exposed all the main elements of Bolshevist policy. His internal policy, as there developed, has been discussed at the end of Chapter VII. It is closely linked with the external policy. Once more—after the adoption of his "new" proposals by the Congress—as in his opening speech, he based everything on the coming world revolution: "But when we look on our party as the hearth of world revolution, and observe the campaign now being conducted
