Trotsky
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In the troika of major figures in the Russian Revolution, Trotsky stood for ideas and Stalin represented power; their predecessor, Vladimir Lenin, had fused the two values as the frowning avatar of communist leadership.
Remarkably, Mr. Mian regards Leon Trotsky, not William Shakespeare or Leo Tolstoy, as “the greatest writer . . . of all time.”
And then he says Karl Marx, Leon Trotsky and Simone de Beauvoir — listing all these European artists and thinkers — those are also yours.
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Overruling Trotsky’s drive for a never-ending worldwide revolution, Stalin normalized the Soviet Union as a nation-state that traded and maintained diplomatic relations with the West.
This isn’t inaccurate: The customers at Vienna’s Café Central in 1913 included Trotsky and Freud, as well as the still-anonymous Hitler and Stalin.
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