Faith Quote by Charles Krauthammer

“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

On the Russian revolutionaries:To leave your parents, faithful and loyal subjects of the Emperor, to leave your profession, to desist from having children, to…

— Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

“The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every…

— Emma Goldman

“The collapse of communism and a recognition of its economic and humanitarian catastrophes took the romance out of revolutionary violence and cast doubt on…

— Steven Pinker

“The ancient bond between the tsarist state and Russian nationalism could be used to create powerful emotions when the enemy came from the heathen…

— Orlando Figes

The clash between the aspirations of the people for a better life and the insistence of their rulers on building a powerful state, regardless…

— Harrison Salisbury

“The degeneration of the revolution in Russia does not pass from the revolution for communism to the revolution for a developed kind of capitalism,…

— Amadeo Bordiga

“Both the United States and the Soviet Union had been born in revolution. Both embraced ideologies with global aspirations: what worked at home, their…

— John Lewis Gaddis

“...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 Russia, perhaps truth and tragedy were always intertwined.”

— Laura Rose

“About immigrants from Russia: Soviet consciousness overlapped with the new American spirits has formed a specific and divisive culture. This culture is full of…

— Leo Pevsner

“To be a Russian writer at the end of the nineteenth century must have meant bearing an inescapably bitter fate. The more they tried…

— Haruki Murakami