My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography

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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

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Citation

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