Accomplish Quote by Leon Trotsky

The Left Opposition declared that the new tempo of industrialization were above our forces, and that the liquidation of the kulaks as a class…

— Leon Trotsky

The initiative of the Five Year Plan and of the accelerated collectivization belongs entirely to the Left Opposition, in uninterrupted and sharp struggles with…

— Leon Trotsky

“In 1929 the leadership replaced institutions for long-term prisoners with work camps, designed to extract minerals in Siberia and other remote areas of the…

— David Priestland

“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

“[Father Dmitry] “lived through collectivization, the crushing of the 80 percent of Russians that were peasants. He served as a soldier in World War…

— Oliver Bullough

Simultaneously the Left Opposition in the course of several years carried on a struggle against the Stalinists in favor of collectivization.

— Leon Trotsky

“I remembered Papa talking about Stalin confiscating peasants' land, tools, and animals. He told them what crops they would produce and how much they…

— Ruta Sepetys

N. S. Khrushchev established his supremacy in the U.S.S.R. after post-Stalinist alarums and excursions (1958-64). This admirable rough diamond, a believer in reform and…

— Eric Hobsbawm

Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.

— A. J. Liebling

“That doesn’t matter. Gorky’s a vain man. We must bind him with cables to the Party,” replied Stalin.3 It worked: during the kulak liquidation,…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

Most of us manage the fateful things that happen in our lives the best we can, certainly not to a Stalin-like 20-year plan.

— Jo Brand

“Collectivization, when completed, brought starvation to much of the Soviet peasantry. Millions of people in Soviet Ukraine, Soviet Kazakhstan, and Soviet Russia died horrible…

— Timothy Snyder