“We have conquered everything, and everything has slipped out of our grasp.” — Victor Serge Copy Share Image
“The only mercy Trotsky granted the Germans, as formal negotiations began at Brest-Litovsk on December 9, was not to show up in person.” — Sean McMeekin Copy Share Image
The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power. — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
“...some men say get them crying on your shoulder and you have the sheets half-unfurled already. Other fellows say get them laughing.… — Stewart Hennessey Copy Share Image
“We should be used to it," Tatiana reasons. "There have always been lines separating us from the rest of the world, whether… — Sarah Miller Copy Share Image
Tyler Kent was a horrible man. He was a rabid anti-communist who believed that the Jews had been behind the Russian Revolution. — Adam Curtis Copy Share Image
“It's different now, like pushing the stop lever on my camera until nothing except the war can squeeze through the lens.” — Sarah Miller Copy Share Image
“A revolution is always distinguished by impoliteness, probably because the ruling classes did not take the trouble in good season to teach… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
I don't want to think any longer simply in terms of the Spanish Revolution or the Russian Revolution. It doesn't make any… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Trotskyism is not a new movement, a new doctrine, but the restoration, the revival of genuine Marxism as it was expounded and… — James P. Cannon Copy Share Image
Modern abstract art starts in Russia in about 1915 with Malevich, and then the Russian Revolution happens, and eventually all that experimental… — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
“Now he drops his self-parody and says with great seriousness: “My dear Ella, don’t you know what the great revolution of our… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I strongly believe that a small Jewish clique which has contempt for the mass of Jewish people worked with non-Jews to create… — David Icke Copy Share Image
My impressions of the Russian Revolution can be divided into two periods. The first period was when I showed deep sympathy. My… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
In the appendix to my History of the Russian Revolution I give a detailed and documented study of the ideas of the… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
In the 19th century it was basically nationality and people trying to define their nationalism and create states which would reflect their… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
My grandfather had come over as a member of the czarist army, to make an arms deal with the British government. Being… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
I think that most people don't think in terms of an American revolution, they think in terms of a Russian revolution, or… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
“The Montreux Palace Hotel was built in an age when it was thought that things would last. It is on the very… — James Salter Copy Share Image
“Berlin. November 18, 1917. Sunday. I think Grosz has something demonic in him. This new Berlin art in general, Grosz, Becher, Benn,… — Harry Kessler Copy Share Image
“Well, let me just end with one last point to do with your question. One of the issues which has devastated a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“For twenty-five years I've been speaking and writing in defense of your right to happiness in this world, condemning your inability to… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“I wish I wasn't an imperial highness or an ex-grand duchess. I'm sick of people doing things to me because of what… — Sarah Miller Copy Share Image
“He acknowledged that in the muckraking days, he would have shared their anger and quit, but his thinking had changed since the… — Peter Hartshorn Copy Share Image
“The First World War; the Russian revolution of 1917; Hitler's revolution of 1933; the second World War; the further development of revolutionary… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
“For virtually all the socialist revolutions of the twentieth century, it was not a crisis of the capitalist system, but imperialist war… — S.A. Smith Copy Share Image
[Marxism will] in a generation or so [go] into the limbo of most heresies, but meanwhile it will have poisoned the Russian… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary. — Karl Liebknecht Copy Share Image
Others loved themselves, money, theories, power: Lenin loved his fellow men… Lenin was God, as Christ was God, because God is Love… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
“Lenin turned to page 2 of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. There, a short report informed of a revolution in Petrograd. Lenin, too,… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“If circumstances should make it impossible (temporarily, I hope) for me to be a Russian writer, perhaps I shall be able, like… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
The Russian Revolution mobilized a popular passion across the world based on Marxism-Leninism, fueled by messianic zeal. It was, perhaps, after the… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
There is no need to exaggerate the part played in the creation of the Bolshevism and in the actual bringing about of… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“The Russian Revolution and its imitators (Chinese, Cuban, Vietnamese, Cambodian) tried to atomize society so thoroughly--to war against the mediating structures that… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“God save us from seeing a Russian revolt, senseless and merciless. Those who plot impossible upheavals among us, are either young and… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
My intention still is to write a play to commemorate, possibly rather skeptically, the 50th anniversary of the Russian revolution. I started… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“N-no-o, all that excitement, it wouldn't reach us,' Timosha spoke gloomily. 'We're like the sunken city of Kitezh, living at the bottom… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
In the early days of the Russian Revolution in 1917, I was completely in sympathy with it. I felt that it established… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
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