Committees Quote by Kliment Voroshilov

“The Bolsheviks placed a premium on the “creative intelligentsia,” as it was termed—writers, artists, and, especially, filmmakers—as well as scholars and scientists. Military officers…

— Masha Gessen

I rather liked Stalin and Molotov, got along fine with them.

— Joachim von Ribbentrop

“What did Volenski know of how he stood in the eyes of the Russian police? Living mostly abroad and consorting in a great measure…

— Emmuska Orczy

Transcending class distinctions, the speaker [Stalin] portrays the relation between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat as a mere division of labor. The workers and…

— Leon Trotsky

“The Party justified its “dictatorship” through purity of faith. Their Scriptures were the teachings of Marxism-Leninism, regarded as a “scientific” truth. Since ideology was…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

Stalin's henchman Molotov, 96, died old and in bed, a privilege he helped to deny to millions.

— George Will

Trotsky found out about him - Leon Trotsky - because A.J.[Muste] worked. He was an activist. And he organized the first sit-in strike in…

— Nat Hentoff

“It never, however, drove him to the extremity of trying to find a regular job. As he makes clear in Mein Kampf, he had…

— William L. Shirer

Because of their historical theory of the "alienation of labor" (that the worker must become less and less in control of the work of…

— Paul Goodman

“The most important task was to step up party-political work, to raise the morale of the troops and their confidence in their strength and…

— Georgy Zhukov

“On Turgenev: He knew from Lavrov that I was an enthusiastic admirer of his writings; and one day, as we were returning in a…

— Peter Kropotkin

Mladenovic knows how to use the power of the crowd.

— Mats Wilander