Joseph Stalin Quotes
You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.
1st Baron Lytton of Knebworth
Germany, after its defeat in WWI was going through massive demonstrations and strikes. The government kept issuing bulletins that “Order Prevails” and the like. Luxemburg’s rhetoric and writing was so damaging to the government that they had her assassinated shortly after this statement.
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was a Georgian revolutionary and the ruler of the Soviet Union from 1927 until 1953. He served as both General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922–1952) and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (1941–1953). Despite initially governing the country as part of a collective leadership, he ultimately consolidated power to become the Soviet Union's de facto dictator by the 1930s. A communist ideologically committed to the Leninist interpretation of Marxism, Stalin formalized these ideas as Marxism–Leninism while his own policies are known as Stalinism.
