Valentin Nicolae

“the anti-Semitic Moldavian Pavalаchii Cruseveanu (b. 1860). Known as Pavel Krushevan, he not only oversaw the text’s compilation in 1902–3 but instigated the major pogrom in Kishenëv (Chişinau) in 1903 and founded the Bessarabian branch of the Union of the Russian People in 1905.53”
― Stephen Kotkin, Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928

“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

“Governments had socialized the liabilities of the core institutions of the global financial system.”
― Martin Wolf, The Shifts and the Shocks: What We've Learned--and Have Still to Learn--from the Financial Crisis

“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