Valentin Nicolae

“In a country supposedly dedicated to the ideals of market economics, arguably the most important social function of finance – lending for home purchase – had become almost completely nationalized.”
― Martin Wolf, The Shifts and the Shocks: What We've Learned--and Have Still to Learn--from the Financial Crisis

“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

“Many rightist movements, refraining from hyperinflammatory rhetoric or arming vigilante “brotherhoods” to combat leftists and Jews and assassinate public figures, were considerably less volatile than the Union of the Russian People.”
― 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