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Life is not an easy matter…. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which r… - Leon Trotsky
" "Life is not an easy matter…. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
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About Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky (Лев Давидович Троцкий; born Lev Davidovich Bronstein; Лев Давидович Бронштейн]; 7 November (O.S. 26 October) 1879 – 21 August 1940) was a Russian Marxist, intellectual, and revolutionary. In the early Soviet Union, he founded the Politburo, served as People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs, and created and led the Red Army. After Lenin's death, Trotsky was exiled for his opposition to Joseph Stalin's policies. His 1940 assassination (with an ice axe) in Mexico was carried out by a Soviet agent (Ramón Mercader) at Stalin's behest.
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Also Known As
Pen Names:
Троцкий
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Перо
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Антид Ото
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Л. Седов
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Старик
Native Name:
Лейба Давидович Бронштейн
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Лев Давидович Троцкий
Alternative Names:
Lev Bronstein
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Lev Davidovich Bronshtein
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Lev Davidovich Bronstein
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Leon Trotski
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Trotsky
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Lev Davidovich Bronshteyn
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Lev Bronshteyn
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Lev Trotsky
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Trotskiy
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Lev Trotskiy
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Lev Davidovich Trotsky
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Lev Davidovich Trotskiy
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The bourgeoisie today is a falling class. ... By its imperialist methods of appropriation [it] is destroying the economic structure of the world and human culture generally. Nevertheless, the historical persistence of the bourgeoisie is colossal. It holds to power, and does not wish to abandon it. Thereby it threatens to drag after it into the abyss the whole of society. We are forced to tear it off, to chop it away. The Red Terror is a weapon utilized against a class, doomed to destruction, which does not wish to perish. If the White Terror can only retard the historical rise of the proletariat, the Red Terror hastens the destruction of the bourgeoisie.
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This book was written in 1920 in the car of a military train and amid the flames of the civil war. The circumstance the reader must keep before his eyes if he wishes rightly to understand not only the basic material of the book, but also its harsh allusion, and particularly the tone in which it is written.
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