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With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Leon Trotsky
Born: November 7, 1879
Died: August 21, 1940 (aged 60)
Bio: Leon Trotsky was a Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founding leader of the Red Army.
Known for:
- The Revolution Betrayed
- History of the Russian Revolution (1932)
- Literature and Revolution
- The Permanent Revolution (1931)
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