Things happen for a reason Quote by Leon Trotsky (1879_1940

“Stalin was the most audible and powerful spokesman in the campaign against what he contemptuously called uravnilovka (leveling). His hostility - voiced in sarcastic…

— Stites Richard

Stalin’s postwar goals were security for himself, his regime, his country, and his ideology, in precisely that order.

— John Lewis Gaddis

Though Stalinism may have been a needless tragedy for both the Russian people and communism as an ideal, there is the intellectually tantalizing possibility…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

“This absolute lack of objectivity might be said to resemble nothing so much as the lack of objectivity these same people had shown during…

— Vasily Grossman

“Stalin perceived the world in stark black and white. In the same way, he divided people, nations, actions, and ideas into only two absolute…

— Anonymous

We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never…

— W. Averell Harriman

“If Stalin gives you a love advice, it has to succeed.”

— Slavoj Žižek

Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“I heard of that bloodthirsty old murderer Josef Stalin inviting all nations to join a happy family of folks devoted to the abolition of…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Once in power, Stalin’s campaign to succeed Lenin required a legitimate heroic career which he did not possess because of his experience in what…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

“To choose one's victims, to prepare one's plans minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed ... there is nothing…

— Robert Harris

We're invited to believe that the worst effects of Stalinism arose from its 'dogmatic' intransigence; but it is precisely because so much was left…

— Mark Fisher