70th Revolutionary Anniversary Speech

The transformations taking place in the technological and organizational basis of the capitalist economy have helped to reconcile contradictions and balance interests. Contrary to initial expectations, the breaking of the weakest link of the capitalist system was not the final, decisive battle, but a beginning of a protracted and complex process. One of the greatest services rendered by the founder of the Soviet state was that V. I. Lenin saw in good time the real prospects opening up for the new Russia as a result of the victorious end of the Civil War. After the Civil War only one and one-half to two years were needed to bring the workers' and peasants' state out of foreign political isolation. Treaties with the neighboring countries and with Germany in Rapallo were concluded. England, France, Italy, Sweden, and other capitalist states extended diplomatic recognition to the Soviet Republic.