It was the supreme expression of the mediocrity of the apparatus…

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Autobiography and memoir

It was the supreme expression of the mediocrity of the apparatus that Stalin himself rose to his position.

Leon Trotsky

1930

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Stalin Soviet Union

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1930

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Leon Trotsky

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Trotsky, Leon. Моя Жизнь [My Life]. Charles Scribner's Sons/Thornton Butterworth, 1930, ch. 40.

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