Arguing Quote by David Hoffman

Gorbachev was acutely aware of the [USSR] economic problems, and it was central to all he did. He wanted to change the system in…

— David Hoffman

Gorbachev gave us freedom of worship and freedom of speech and freedom to see what was going on and freedom to vote, but that…

— Boris Yeltsin

Was the Soviet Union reformable? I would say no. They said, 'Okay, the Soviet Union isn't working.' They would say, 'No, it's great. We…

— Marine Le Pen

The fascinating thing to a dispassionate observer about the structure of life in the Soviet Union is that in their efforts to produce an…

— John Dos Passos

If Putin and those around him had been smart enough to go in a different direction... The country was ready. The conditions were extremely…

— Vladimir Voinovich

Gorbachevism, carried out by mediocre but ambitious party bureaucrats, is an attempt not only to outdo the people but also the objective laws of…

— Alexander Zinoviev

American democracy and the Soviet system may peacefully exist side by side and compete with each other. But one cannot evolve into the other.

— J. Stalin

The Russian people have unilaterally made their choice in direction of democracy in the early '90s. They will not be led astray. Nobody should…

— Vladimir Putin

What with the political monopoly, the Cheka and the Red Army, all that now existed of the 'Commune-State' of our dreams was a theoretical…

— Victor Serge

The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

The readings of Soviet society are as many as the experts you speak to. In my view, it's a society that is overdue for…

— E. P. Thompson

“In the end, the “model” that came into existence in the USSR was not socialist but totalitarian. This is a serious matter to be…

— Mikhail Gorbachev