“We have conquered everything, and everything has slipped out of our grasp.” — Victor Serge 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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“It was partly the war, the revolution did the rest. The war was an artificial break in life-- as if life could… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“Thus the Russian working class had contradictory characteristics for a Marxist diagnosing its revolutionary potential. Yet the empirical evidence of the period… — Sheila Fitzpatrick 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
“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
“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
“Trotsky's assault on Kronstadt in March 1921 marked a point of no return. There was no longer even a whiff of pretense… — Sean McMeekin 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
[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
“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
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
“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 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
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
“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
“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
The Russian revolution did not occur until a generation after Marx's death. He was not involved with it, or with what came… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Ralph Miliband was a socialist intellectual of great integrity. He belonged to a generation of socialists formed by the Russian revolution and… — Tariq Ali 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
![“In the appendix to my History of the Russian Revolution I give a detailed and documented study of the ideas of the Bolshevik party on the October revolution. This study, I hope, will make it impossible in the future to ascribe to [Vladimir] Lenin the theory of Socialism in a single country.” quote by Leon Trotsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/374/leon-trotsky-2558_appendix_in-the-appendix-to-my-history-of-the-rus_363447.jpg)
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