Achievement Quote by Leon Trotsky

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

— Leon Trotsky

“The Soviet five-year planning process—surely the ultimate management challenge—took its inspiration directly from the work of one of Taylor’s most successful disciples, Henry L.…

— Matthew Stewart

Only when the kulak refused to deliver grain to the State did [Joseph] Stalin, under the pressure of the Left Opposition, accomplish a sharp…

— Leon Trotsky

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

“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

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

“Stalin had developed an interesting new theory: that resistance to socialism increases as its successes mount, because its foes resist with greater desperation as…

— Timothy Snyder

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

“By the time Stalin died on 5 March 1953, the Soviet Union boasted the largest and best-funded scientific establishment in history. It was at…

— Simon Ings

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

— John Lewis Gaddis

Central planning didn't work for Stalin or Mao, and it won't work for an entrepreneur either.

— Michael Bloomberg

“Dwight Eisenhower had secretly endorsed the blueprints of this multi-genocide machine. He had furthermore demanded, largely for budgetary reasons, that there be no other…

— Daniel Ellsberg