Achieve Quote by Leon Trotsky

However much an ideologue tries to bury [Lenin] beneath a proof by historical analysis, there is always this one man standing their on the…

— Louis Althusser

“When the Bolsheviks came to power they were soft and easy with their enemies... we had begun by making a mistake. Leniency towards such…

— Joseph Stalin

“Believing that, in alliance with the proletariat, they have singled out in capitalism the common enemy, the young abandon their own ground, that of…

— Carla Lonzi

“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

“It all fit. The love of power, the focus on Russia to the exclusion of the rest of the world—with an exception made perhaps…

— Masha Gessen

The only conclusion you can draw from the real historical movement is that by and large, in day-to-day life, what Lenin called trade union…

— Ernest Mandel

It was the supreme expressionof the mediocrity of the apparatus that Stalin himself rose to his position.

— Leon Trotsky (1879_1940

“One more impression I gathered from that work of my boyhood, an impression which I did not formulate till afterward, and which will probably…

— Peter Kropotkin

“But the powerful and respected party right, particularly Stalin, went so far in the direction of moderation as to support a merger of Bolsheviks…

— China Miéville

“The historical moment when Bolshevism triumphed for itself in Russia and social democracy fought victoriously for the old world marks the inauguration of the…

— Guy Debord

“Having lived in a mythical country, a place neither here nor there, these intellectuals from Vilna and Gomel helped create another and called it…

— Alan Furst

“… I am disappointed by the events of the last days [October 1917] not because I do not desire the triumph of the working…

— Georgi Plekhanov