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Aleksandr Zinovyev (29 September 1922 β 10 May 2006) was a Russian philosopher, sociologist and writer
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βThe disease of our time is mediocrity.β
βThe S-F is a very powerful, very modern tool, [...]. p. 143β
βCommunist society is a veritable paradise for parasites. p. 42β
βThe petty bourgeois is inclined to pass off what he feels as the truth. p. 36β
βPerestroika is nothing but a spectacle organized from above.β
βStalin is not the creator of Russian tragedy, he was only its expression. p. 340β
βDemocratic totalitarianism and financial dictatorship exclude social revolution.β
βIt is the characteristic of totalitarian systems to understand nothing about humor.β
βI address every man, my writings seek to reach what is human in every living being. p. 143β
βIn the present case the man who reasons as a historian is only a petty bourgeois in disguise. p. 42β
β[...] literature plays a sort of ideological role; it instills in men perspectives of humanity. p. 132β
βThe thirties were the darkest and at the same time the most optimistic period in Soviet history. p. 99β
βWe can consider that the era we have just entered is not only post-communist but also post-democratic.β
βLa SuprasociΓ©tΓ© globale et la Russie, Alexandre Zinoviev (trad. GΓ©rard Conio), Γ©d. L'Age d'Homme, 2000β
βWhen it comes to destroying and humiliating Russian geniuses, the West and the Soviet Union are one. p. 103β
βEvery war reveals in one way or another the fundamental characteristics of the societies involved in it. p.196β
βThere is a sociological law according to which systems which have contact end up looking alike... p. 138 and 144β
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Alexander Zinoviev on Joseph Stalin 2 quotes
βI consider him one of the greatest persons in the history of mankind. In the history of Russia he was, in my opinion, even greater than Lenin. Until Stalin's death I was anti-Stalinist, but I always regarded him as a brilliant personality.β
About Alexander Zinoviev
Aleksandr Zinovyev (29 September 1922 β 10 May 2006) was a Russian philosopher, sociologist and writer
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