Enemy Quote by Anne Applebaum

Trotsky was essentially a Western mind. Lenin was a Russian, and unlike most other revolutionary exiles, wherever he went he was a Russian.

— Whittaker Chambers

“This was the first of the St. Augustines. Previous memos had borne messages from Zwingli, Lévi-Strauss, Rilke, Chekhov, Tillich, William Blake, Charles Olson and…

— Don DeLillo

“Trotsky was so much an intellectual that in the final analysis, Marxism was not quite enough for him.”

— Christopher Hitchens

In all spheres of modern life the influence of Stalin reaches wide and deep. From his last simply written but vastly discerning and comprehensive…

— Paul Robeson

“Though Stalin was no more to be trusted than was Hitler, and though he was responsible for the deaths of more citizens of his…

— Archie Brown

[Joseph] Stalin closes the exposition of these [Leon Trotsky] ideas with the words, "Such are in general the characteristic features of [Vladimir] Lenin's conception…

— Leon Trotsky

“What Hitler and Stalin had in common was the same aspiration that animated the first inquisitors - the simple but deadly notion that it…

— Jonathan Kirsch

I don't for a minute think that Hitler is like Joan of Arc. But I think that at that deep level of tropisms, Hitler…

— Nathalie Sarraute

I consider him Stalin one of the greatest persons in the history of mankind. In the history of Russia he was, in my opinion,…

— Alexander Zinoviev

“It all fit. The love of power, the focus on Russia to the exclusion of the rest of the world—with an exception made perhaps…

— Masha Gessen

Joseph Stalin is a titan of thought. His name is to be given to an entire century.

— Palmiro Togliatti

Of all the writers I have read, Vladimir Nabokov has made the biggest impression on me because he, despite living through the 1917 February…

— Ashwin Sanghi