Bolsheviks Quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“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

“...you must remember that the political development of the masses proceeds not in a direct line, but in a complicated curve. And is not…

— Leon Trotsky

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

“At the time of the October Revolution, the Russian intellectual elite had been both a part and a partner to the European conversation about…

— Masha Gessen

All revolutions are bloody. The October Revolution was bloodless, but it was only the beginning

— Dmitri Volkogonov

It is one of the ironies of this strange century that the most lasting results of the October revolution, whose object was the global…

— Eric Hobsbawm

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

— Germaine Greer

It was the Russians that introduced the Chinese to Marxism. Before the October Revolution, the Chinese were not only ignorant of Lenin and Stalin…

— Mao Zedong

No one revolution up to now has brought all that was expected of it by the masses. Hence the inevitability of a certain disillusionment,…

— Leon Trotsky

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.…

— Noam Chomsky

The revolution is an amalgam of former Party functionaries, quasi- democrats, KGB officers, and black-market wheeler-dealers, who are standing in power now and have…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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