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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

“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

You must understand, the leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they…

— 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

In the early 1990s, there was a debate among economists over shock therapy versus a gradualism strategy for Russia. The people in Russia who…

— Joseph Stiglitz

People were expecting Rouge to go bankrupt, so there was a lot of anxiety. The corporate culture problem was even worse than in Russia.…

— Alexei Mordashov

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

“One result of the Bolshevik conquest of half of Western Europe is that they have reduced the scale of living in those countries to…

— Ladislas Farago

“...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

Let us resolve the internal political problems of Russia ourselves

— Vladimir Putin

Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century. As for the Russian…

— Vladimir Putin

“Unlike modern feminists, who argue for a redivision of household tasks within the family, increasing men's share of domestic responsibilities, Bolshevik theorists sought to…

— Wendy Z. Goldman