I call upon you to judge, for if we in good conscience teach discipline to workers and peasants, then we are obliged to begin with ourselves.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin

1918

in the journal "Bolshevik" No. 3

Published in full in 1942

Written in April, no earlier than the 21st, First published in part in 1940 in Lenin Collection XXXIV

Printed from the manuscript