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Trotsky
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Trotsky's assault on Kronstadt in March 1921 marked a point of no return. There was no longer even a whiff of pretense that the Communist government had the support of the people over whom it ruled. The Red Terror had been aimed at "class enemies"; the Civil War was a struggle against "imperialists and White Guards." Even the peasant wars had pitted, in theory at least, proletarians against "capitalist farmers." But now the world's first "proletarian" government had begun slaughtering urban prol
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― The Russian Revolution: A New History
― The Russian Revolution: A New History
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He who does not cry out the truth when he knows the truth becomes the accomplice of the liars and falsifiers.
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― From Lenin to Stalin
― From Lenin to Stalin
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