Like Lenin Comrade Stalin is a leader of a higher type. He…

Comrade Stalin, having become Secretary-General, has unlimited authority concentrated in his hands, and I am not sure whether he will always be capable of…

— Vladimir Lenin

I have sworn before a picture of the old and mourned comrade Stalin that I won’t rest until I see these capitalist octopuses annihilated.

— Che Guevara

“In just a bony fistful of years, classical Russian food culture vanished, almost without a trace. The country's nationalistic euphoria on entering World War…

— Anya von Bremzen

The social model of the Bolsheviks failed, as will any model that denies individual rights, intellectual freedom, and freedom of competing political parties. Without…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

The Bolsheviks could not have retained power for two and a half months, let alone two and a half years, without the most rigorous…

— Vladimir Lenin

Sincerity is all that counts. It's a widespread modern heresy. Think again. Bolsheviks are sincere. Fascists are sincere. Lunatics are sincere. People who believe…

— Tom Driberg

“When the Bolsheviks came to power they were soft and easy with their enemies... we had begun by making a mistake. Leniency towards such…

— Joseph Stalin

In the appendix to my History of the Russian Revolution I give a detailed and documented study of the ideas of the Bolshevik party…

— Leon Trotsky

Western intellectuals, and also Third World intellectuals, were attracted to the Bolshevik counter-revolution because Leninism is, after all, a doctrine which says that the…

— Noam Chomsky

[F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon is the…

— Terry Eagleton

The State, every government whatever its form, character or color - be it absolute or constitutional, monarchy or republic, Fascist, Nazi or bolshevik -…

— Emma Goldman

I was a Stalinist in the '30s. I had come from a Russian revolutionary family who simply were elated by the fact that the…

— Murray Bookchin

The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself.

— Anatoly Chubais

From the crown of my head to the soles of my feet I am Bolshevik, and proud of it.

— Eugene V. Debs

There are historical analogs, which are not exact, of course, but are close enough to be worrisome. This is a whiff of early Nazi…

— Noam Chomsky