Bolsheviks Quote by Adam Ulam Download Open image “The Bolsheviks did not seize power; they picked it up.” — Adam Ulam ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bolsheviks Funny Inspirational Love Power Success
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 Copy Share Image
The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself. — Anatoly Chubais Copy Share Image
“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 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 this time)… — Sheila Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
“Everyone starved. Starvation is a potent weapon, and the Bolsheviks are happy to wield it. The cheapest way to get rid of the opposition… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
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 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 Revolution, we… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The Bolshevik revolution was a counter-revolution. Its first moves were to destroy and eliminate every socialist tendency that had developed in the pre-revolutionary period. Their goal was as they said; it wasn't a big secret. They regarded the Soviet Union as sort a backwater. They were orthodox Marxists, expecting a revolution in Germany. They moved toward what they themselves called… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
“There are plenty of Marxist-Leninist textbooks about taking power; but there are none about giving it up.” — Victor Sebestyen Copy Share Image
What happened in Russia in 1917 wasn't a revolution - it was a coup d'etat. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power. — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
One senses that all the Bolsheviks, even those who ended up as cold-blooded autocrats, had been on a journey from idealism to something else,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
From the crown of my head to the soles of my feet I am Bolshevik, and proud of it. — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The State, every government whatever its form, character or color - be it absolute or constitutional, monarchy or republic, Fascist, Nazi or bolshevik -… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
[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 impeccably Tory, slavishly conformist Beckham. The Reds are no longer the Bolsheviks. Nobody serious about political change can shirk the fact that the game has to be abolished. And any political outfit that tried it on… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share
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 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… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Anton Pannekoek didn't encourage radical workers and other activists of the anti-Bolshevik left to see revolutionary potential in his work in astronomy, for the simple reason that he was honest, and knew there was none to speak of. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
The Bolshevik revolution was a counter-revolution. Its first moves were to destroy and eliminate every socialist tendency that had developed in the pre-revolutionary period. Their goal was as they said; it wasn't a big secret. They regarded the Soviet Union as sort a backwater. They were orthodox Marxists, expecting a revolution in Germany. They moved toward what they themselves called… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
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