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

Leon Trotsky

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Topic

Stalin Soviet Union

Author

Leon Trotsky

Source

My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

Russian

Time

1930 1930s 20th century

Occupation

Marxist revolutionary Marxist Revolutionary Politician Writer

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Ukraine Europe

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Citation

Trotsky, Leon. Моя Жизнь [My Life]. Charles Scribner's Sons/Thornton Butterworth, 1930, ch. 40.

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Every Communist must grasp the truth: "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."

Mao Zedong

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Medium
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Genre
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Language
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Time
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We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast. But why must it be vast? Instead of all that, what if it’s one little room, like a bath house in the country, black and grimy and spiders in every corner, and that’s all eternity is?

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Crime and Punishment

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Eternity The afterlife
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
Source
Crime and Punishment
Medium
Novel
Language
Russian
Time
1866 1860s 19th century
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Original Citation

Dostoyevsky, Feodor. Преступленіе и наказаніе [Crime and Punishment]. The Russian Messenger, Jan. 1866 - Dec. 1866, monthly serial.

Current Citation

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment, translated and edited by Michael R. Katz. W. W. Norton & Company, 2018.