1933, Malcolm Cowley, “Trotsky and the Art of Insurrection” in Henry Dan Piper (ed.), Think Back on Us . . . A Contemporary Chronicle of the 1930’s by Malcolm Cowley, Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1967, p. 28, Always Trotsky displays that archidiabolical pride which is both his virtue as an individual and his most dangerous quality as a statesman.
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