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Stalin’s direct appeal to proletarian instincts, begun in the 1923 fight against Trotsky, was continued and amplified into a new manipulatory device which developed to its full flower during the dekulakization period of the 1928-1929.

— Ruth Fischer Stalin and German Communism: A Study in the Origins of the State Party (1948)

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