Collapse Quote by Garry Kasparov

The Soviet transition to a new political structure shows that the Soviet strategists are thinking, planning and acting in broad terms, way beyond the…

— Anatoliy Golitsyn

All through the years of the Soviet empire, its Politburo held 'elections.' Of course, calling something an election and actually having it be an…

— Benazir Bhutto

Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.

— Vladimir Lenin

There are exceptions of course, like for instance the Baltic States, which are members of the European Union, together with Ukraine and Moldova, as…

— Garry Kasparov

In the history of mankind many republics have risen, have flourished for a less or greater time, and then have fallen because their citizens…

— Theodore Roosevelt

After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought the last Soviet generation was going to be the great hope for democracy. When that failed, their…

— Masha Gessen

Republics, like other forms of government, exist in history and can rise and fall.

— Timothy D. Snyder

The Soviet Union, and Russia as the successor state to the Soviet Union, is a founding member state of the United Nations and a…

— Vladimir Putin

In the next place, the state governments are, by the very theory of the constitution, essential constituent parts of the general government. They can…

— Joseph Story

When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.

— Baron de Montesquieu

If you present good government, then elections look after themselves.

— Jay Weatherill

What happened to the Soviet Union happened mainly for domestic reasons. It was a failure of the model based on a command economy and…

— Mikhail Gorbachev