Books Quote by Francis Mccullagh

“It is interesting to ponder the fact that there is no real difference between what the Western Fascists wanted of literature and what the…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“...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

I suspect in Lenin's works there's everything, if you search well.

— Janusz Korwin-Mikke

However much an ideologue tries to bury [Lenin] beneath a proof by historical analysis, there is always this one man standing their on the…

— Louis Althusser

“The great writer was mortally afraid of the rising generation of young revolutionaries, and imagining, through his ignorance of things, that they held the…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Literature has its own life, even in a dictatorship like the Soviet Union.

— Heinrich Boll

“No artist has painted A true portrait of Lenin Ages to come will complete Lenin's unfinished portrait. Did Poletaev understand the tragic implication of…

— Vasily Grossman

Under Lenin, hardly less than under Stalin, historians harbored critical opinions at their peril. The writing, let alone the publication, of political diaries was…

— Norman Davies

“I think you are wise. You haven't got what it takes for this job. You are like Rosemary's father. He couldn't understand Lenin's dictum:…

— Agatha Christie

“Literature matters because it is how humanity, with all its losses and joys, can become a work of art.”

— Lisa C. Taylor

“In his What is to be Done? (1863), probably the worst Russian novel of the nineteenth century (and also the most influential), the Crystal…

— Pankaj Mishra

The idea of social realist art and of Marxist journalism was that: 'We're going to tell people not what things were like, but what…

— Anne Applebaum