3 Stalinism Quotes for You to Enjoy

As awful as the crimes of Stalinism were, the vast majority of the Russian population was trying to survive, to love, to have a sense of purpose. Amor Towles

Love Sense Crimes Russian Purpose Vast Vast Majority Majority Were Survive Trying To Love To Survive Stalinism Population Awful

Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again. Lionel Blue

Religion Saw Open Idolatry Cracked Repression Again Stalinism Early

One of the most influential of the post-Soviet books was the Princeton historian Stephen Kotkin's 'Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization' (1995), a study of the steel city of Magnitogorsk, the U.S.S.R.'s answer to Pittsburgh, as it was constructed in the shadow of the Ural Mountains in the early nineteen-thirties. Keith Gessen

Princeton Mountains Books City Shadow Magnetic Constructed Civilization Steel Study Most Answer Historian Mountain Pittsburgh Influential Stalinism Early