Conception Quote by Leon Trotsky

Can and must! The proclamation of this new conception of [Joseph Stalin] is closed by the same words, "Such are in general the characteristic…

— Leon Trotsky

[Joseph] Stalin closes the exposition of these [Leon Trotsky] ideas with the words, "Such are in general the characteristic features of [Vladimir] Lenin's conception…

— Leon Trotsky

Leninism is Marxism of the era of imperialism and the proletarian revolution.

— Joseph Stalin

“No artist has painted A true portrait of Lenin Ages to come will complete Lenin's unfinished portrait. Did Poletaev understand the tragic implication of…

— Vasily Grossman

Lenin had just reflected that the revolution would never happen in his lifetime when in February 1917, hungry crowds in Petrograd overthrew Nicholas II…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

“Lenin only believes in the revolution and in the virtue of expediency.'One must be prepared for every sacrifice, to use, if necessary, every stratagem,…

— albert camus

Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live.

— Kim Il-sung

Only the defeat of the proletariat in Germany in 1923 gave the decisive push to the creation of Stalin's theory of national socialism: the…

— Leon Trotsky

Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none.

— Peter Kropotkin

“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, of course, never went on trial, but his legacy did. In 1956, three years after his death, he was denounced by Nikita Khrushchev.…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

Under Lenin, hardly less than under Stalin, historians harbored critical opinions at their peril. The writing, let alone the publication, of political diaries was…

— Norman Davies