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
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
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
“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
“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
“...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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“More than half a century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of older people offer the… — Alexsandr I. Solzhenitsn Copy Share Image
“A French essayist has said: 'What is terrible when you seek the truth, is that you find it.' You find it, and… — Victor Serge Copy Share Image
“In order to mount a revolution, numbers are never enough. Revolutions are usually made by small networks of agitators rather than by… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The old revolutionary chant "Power to the People," usually accompanied by a raised clenched fist, has gone out of fashion. The failure… — Walter B. Wriston Copy Share Image
“The revolution is led by pigs with a vision of an egalitarian utopia free from tyrannical human beings, but their ideals are… — Emma Larkin 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
“Housman would not have appealed so deeply to the people who were young in 1920 if it had not been for another… — George Orwell 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
“My sisters and I sit together on a pair of suitcases. If we've forgotten anything, it's already too late -- our rooms… — Sarah Miller Copy Share Image
“Maria cries unashamedly on my shoulder while I whisper and pet her cheek, but Anastasia grips my other hand and stares fiercely… — Sarah Miller 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
The Russian people are suffering from economic fatigue and from disillusionment with the Allies! The world thinks the Russian Revolution is at… — Alexander Kerensky Copy Share Image
More than one branch of the avant-garde, claiming to break with the bourgeois vision and mode of production, remains tied to it… — Patrice Pavis Copy Share Image
“Three of the revolutions," Bermuda said, "the French, the Russian, and the American, were true only in the beginning. Just true in… — Allan Dare Pearce Copy Share Image
According to Colonel Ely Garrison, in his autobiography and according to the United States Naval Secret Service Report on Paul Warburg, the… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image