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His comrade Martov bitterly answered: "Under our great new socialist government, we couldn't even find enough rope to hang them!"
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But the other editor was a mystery: Fourteenth Street cafeteria savants who could distinguish at the drop of a coffee spoon between Manuilsky and Mayakovsky, Dan and Denikin, Malenkov, Martov, Miliukov, Muralov, and Muranov were stumped by Maurin (Peter).
Revisiting Dorothy Day Macdonald, Dwight 1971
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He came out of the revolution, too, with the greatest gains in popularity; neither Lenin nor Martov gained much.
My Life Trotsky, Leon 1930
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Martov evolved innumerable and often ingenious guesses, hypotheses, and propositions which even he promptly forgot; whereas Lenin waited until the moment when he needed them.
My Life Trotsky, Leon 1930
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Lenin and Martov had left St. Petersburg long before, and were living in Finland.
My Life Trotsky, Leon 1930
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Of the Iskra editors, my closest connections were with Martov, Zasulitch and Axelrod.
My Life Trotsky, Leon 1930
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Lenin would look beyond Martov as he talked, while Martov's eyes would grow glassy under his drooping and never quite clean pince-nez.
My Life Trotsky, Leon 1930
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I visited both Lenin and Martov, who lived in neighboring villages.
My Life Trotsky, Leon 1930
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Martov lived much more in the present, in its events, in his current literary work, in the political problems of the day, in the news and conversations; Lenin, on the other hand, although he was firmly entrenched in the present, was always trying to pierce the veil of the future.
My Life Trotsky, Leon 1930
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Since we lived in the same house in London, and in Geneva usually had our meals in the same restaurants, I was with Martov and Zasulitch several times a day, whereas Lenin led the life of a family man, and every meeting with him, aside from the official meetings, was a small event.
My Life Trotsky, Leon 1930
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