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Leon Trotsky

(1879–1940) Politician Russian Empire

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Leon Trotsky was a politician from the Russian Empire, best known for История русской революции.

Quick Facts About Leon Trotsky

Born: October 26, 1879
Died: August 21, 1940
Nationality: Russian Empire
Profession: Politician
Notable works: История русской революции
Known for: The Revolution Betrayed, Trotskyism, My Life, The Permanent Revolution
Spouse: Natalia Sedova

About Leon Trotsky

Lev Davidovich Trotsky, better known as Leon Trotsky, was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician and political theorist. He was a key figure in the 1905 Revolution, the October Revolution of 1917, the Russian Civil War, and the establishment of the Soviet Union, from which he was exiled in 1929 before his assassination in 1940. Trotsky and Vladimir Lenin were widely considered the two most prominent figures in the Soviet state from 1917 until Lenin's death in 1924. Ideologically a Marxist and a Leninist, Trotsky's ideas and beliefs inspired a school of Marxism known as Trotskyism.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Order of the Red Banner

Quotes by Leon Trotsky · Page 2

The masses go into a revolution not with a prepared plan of social reconstruction, but with a sharp feeling that they cannot…

Endure

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No one revolution up to now has brought all that was expected of it by the masses. Hence the inevitability of a…

Activity

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Only in the Fall of 1924 did [Joseph] Stalin discover that it is especially Russia, as distinguished from other countries, which can…

Country

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The people will have the right to elect their representatives from a list of candidates [who have been approved by the Party].

Approved

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As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the sacredness of human life.

Concerned

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“A revolution is always distinguished by impoliteness, probably because the ruling classes did not take the trouble in good season to teach…

Revolution

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The party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sharpening of the class struggle,…

Bourgeoisie

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The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.

Communist

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Everyone has a right to be stupid, but Comrade McDonald abuses the privilege.

Abuse

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Workers – men and women – of all countries, place yourselves under the banner of the Fourth International. It is the banner…

Banner

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Natasha has just come up to the window from the courtyard and opened it wider so that the air may enter more…

Air

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National self-sufficiency or "autarchy" is the ideal of [Adolf] Hitler, not of [Karl] Marx and [Vladimir] Lenin.

Ideals

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Without a correct strategy the victory is impossible. But even the most correct strategy cannot give the victory under unfavorable objective conditions.

Conditions

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Nowhere else did repressions, purges, suppressions, and all other kinds of bureaucratic hooliganism in general acquire such horrifying scope as in Ukraine,…

Acquire

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You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on - into…

Dustbin

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Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

Fire

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The boycott of parliamentary institutions on the part of anarchists and semianarchists is dictated by a desire not to submit their weakness…

Anarchism

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In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.

Cruelty

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Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one…

Agreement

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It is therefore not true that the mere existence of the Soviet Union is capable of assuring the victory of the revolution…

Capable

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Everyone has the right to be stupid on occasion, but Comrade Macdonald abuses the privilege.

Everyone

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“The bourgeoisie...by its imperialist methods of appropriation is destroying the economic structure of the world and human culture generally. Nevertheless, the historical…

Economics

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To overthrow the power of the bourgeoisie and to establish the power of the proletariat in one country still does not signify…

Bourgeoisie

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“We seek to uncover behind the events changes in the collective consciousness. We reject wholesale references to the “spontaneity” of the movement,…

Change

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The task of the proletariat is to create a still more powerful fatherland with a far greater power of resistance, the Republican…

Europe

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