Stalin: An Appraisal of the Man and His Influence is a political biography of Joseph Stalin, written by Leon Trotsky between 1938 and 1940. The book was never finished due to Trotsky's assassination in August 1940 although copious draft manuscripts for concluding chapters survived, allowing editors to complete the work.

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Notable quotes

“As we know, the goal of every struggle is victory. But if the proletariat is to achieve victory, all the workers, irrespective of nationality, must be united. Clearly, the demolition of national barriers and close unity between the Russian, Georgian, Armenian, Polish, Jewish and other proletarians is a necessary condition for the victory of the proletariat of all Russia.”
— from "The Social-Democratic View of the National Question", 1904 (aged 26)
“What would happen if capital succeeded in smashing the Republic of Soviets? There would set in an era of the blackest reaction in all the capitalist and colonial countries, the working class and the oppressed peoples would be seized by the throat, the positions of international communism would be lost.”
— Speech at The Seventh Enlarged Plenum of the E.C.C.I. (December 1926)
“Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division, and from the antagonism between poor and rich, means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.”
— Interview with H. G. Wells (September 1937)
“You know, they are fooling us, there is no God.”
— A teenaged Stalin to a fellow student while studying to become a priest in the Russian Orthodox Church, as quoted in Landmarks in the Life of Stalin (1942) by Yemelyan Yaroslavsky, p. 9
“Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.”
— As quoted in The Memoirs of Stalin's former secretary (1992) by Boris Bazhanov [Saint Petersburg] (in Russian)
“Stop sending assassins to murder me... if this doesn't stop, I will send a man to Moscow and there'll be no need to send any more.”
— Attributed to Tito in "Stalin : Court of the Red Czar" by Simon Sebag-Montefiore, but the ultimate source is Roy Medvedev, who quotes the story in several different versions.

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Notable quotes

“As we know, the goal of every struggle is victory. But if the proletariat is to achieve victory, all the workers, irrespective of nationality, must be united. Clearly, the demolition of national barriers and close unity between the Russian, Georgian, Armenian, Polish, Jewish and other proletarians is a necessary condition for the victory of the proletariat of all Russia.”
— from "The Social-Democratic View of the National Question", 1904 (aged 26)
“What would happen if capital succeeded in smashing the Republic of Soviets? There would set in an era of the blackest reaction in all the capitalist and colonial countries, the working class and the oppressed peoples would be seized by the throat, the positions of international communism would be lost.”
— Speech at The Seventh Enlarged Plenum of the E.C.C.I. (December 1926)
“Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division, and from the antagonism between poor and rich, means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.”
— Interview with H. G. Wells (September 1937)
“You know, they are fooling us, there is no God.”
— A teenaged Stalin to a fellow student while studying to become a priest in the Russian Orthodox Church, as quoted in Landmarks in the Life of Stalin (1942) by Yemelyan Yaroslavsky, p. 9
“Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.”
— As quoted in The Memoirs of Stalin's former secretary (1992) by Boris Bazhanov [Saint Petersburg] (in Russian)
“Stop sending assassins to murder me... if this doesn't stop, I will send a man to Moscow and there'll be no need to send any more.”
— Attributed to Tito in "Stalin : Court of the Red Czar" by Simon Sebag-Montefiore, but the ultimate source is Roy Medvedev, who quotes the story in several different versions.

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

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Stalin: An Appraisal of the Man and His Influence is a political biography of Joseph Stalin, written by Leon Trotsky between 1938 and 1940. The book was never finished due to Trotsky's assassination in August 1940 although copious draft manuscripts for concluding chapters survived, allowing editors to complete the work.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Stalin: An Appraisal of the Man and His Influence is a political biography of Joseph Stalin, written by Leon Trotsky between 1938 and 1940. The book was never finished due to Trotsky's assassination in August 1940 although copious draft manuscripts for concluding chapters survived, allowing editors to complete the work.

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