“Conspiracy theories explaining the Bolshevik victory gained widespread credence: the most popular of these was that of international Jewish conspiracy, since Trotsky,… — Sheila Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
All revolutions are bloody. The October Revolution was bloodless, but it was only the beginning — Dmitri Volkogonov 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
“I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure ... Like, why did Paris Commune… — Slavoj Zizek Copy Share Image
No one revolution up to now has brought all that was expected of it by the masses. Hence the inevitability of a… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“What the engineers had first seen in the October coup d'état was ruin. (And for three years there had been ruin and… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Behind the October Revolution there are more influential personalities than the thinkers and executors of Marxism. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
My congratulations on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution. — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
“Speaking of the capitulation of Bulgaria, an event decisive to the outcome of the First World War and therefore to the end… — Claudio Magris Copy Share Image
Capitalism has been fully restored in Yugoslavia, as is well-known, but this capitalism knows how to disguise. Yugoslavia portrays itself as a… — Enver Hoxha Copy Share Image
It is one of the ironies of this strange century that the most lasting results of the October revolution, whose object was… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
“The early days of revolution were remarkable for how submerged and scattered that hard right was. Most of its high-profile figures had… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“To get to the root of the matter, let it be recalled that political relations are never "decreed": in the last analysis… — Charles Bettelheim Copy Share Image
“An army cannot be built without reprisals. Masses of men cannot be led to death unless the army command has the death-penalty… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“At every historical conjuncture, the present is not only present, it also encompasses a perspective on the past immanent to it—after the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The "October Revolution" is a myth generated by the winners, the Bolsheviks, and swallowed whole by progressive circles in the West. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“It may well be that the Bolsheviks' greatest strength in 1917 was not strict party organization and discipline (which scarcely existed at… — Sheila Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
“For the information of these “friends” who consider themselves called to defend against us the role of the Bolsheviks in the October… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“But the powerful and respected party right, particularly Stalin, went so far in the direction of moderation as to support a merger… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“At the time of the October Revolution, the Russian intellectual elite had been both a part and a partner to the European… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
“It is true that from time to time Jews suffered from the fury of an exploited peasantry or their competitors. But from… — Israel Shamir Copy Share Image
It was the Russians that introduced the Chinese to Marxism. Before the October Revolution, the Chinese were not only ignorant of Lenin… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
