Valentin Nicolae

“banks were ‘international in life, but national in death’.”
― Martin Wolf, The Shifts and the Shocks: What We've Learned--and Have Still to Learn--from the Financial Crisis

“could serve as a political elixir: everything that went awry could be, and was, blamed on the Jews.”
― Stephen Kotkin, Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928

“Sergei Kryzhanovsky, who handled the disbursements to the Union of Russian People and similar organizations, saw no distinction between the political techniques and social program of the far right—redistribution of private property from plutocrats to the poor—and”
― Stephen Kotkin, Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928

“Stolypin, frowned on the public “disorder” of political mobilization, and wanted politics to return from the street to the corridors of power.”
― Stephen Kotkin, Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928