The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.
Leon TrotskyOnce again, he who ignores the problems of revolutionary strategy would do better not to talk about revolutions at all.
Leon TrotskyIn the appendix to my History of the Russian Revolution I give a detailed and documented study of the ideas of the Bolshevik party on the October revolution. This study, I hope, will make it impossible in the future to ascribe to [Vladimir] Lenin the theory of Socialism in a single country.
Leon Trotsky