Before Quote by Herman Gorter

Because in Russia you were able to triumph with the help of a large class of poor peasants, you represent things in such a…

— Herman Gorter

My grandfather had come over as a member of the czarist army, to make an arms deal with the British government. Being a blinkered…

— Helen Mirren

“The Rusanovs loved the People, their great People. They served the People and were ready to give their lives for the People. But as…

— Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

“As we walk out to the street my friend points out a sign on the other side of the road, which instructs people to…

— Greg Hopkinson

“...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

“On the twelfth of June, the forces of Western Europe crossed the borders of Russia, and war began--that is, an event took place contrary…

— Leo Tolstoy

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

The leaders of the petty bourgeoisie must teach the people to trust the bourgeoisie. The proletarians must teach the people to distrust the bourgeoisie.

— Vladimir Lenin

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 Soviet government sprouted and grew out of the habits, the psychology, and the condition of the Russian people. It fitted them. They understand…

— Lincoln Steffens

“In just a bony fistful of years, classical Russian food culture vanished, almost without a trace. The country's nationalistic euphoria on entering World War…

— Anya von Bremzen

In Russia itself the proletariat conquered in spite of the fact that there was no Soviet State in existence at the time elsewhere. For…

— Leon Trotsky