Attention Quote by Leo Tolstoy

My television teaches me that everything was wonderful in the Soviet Union. According to the programs I watch, the KGB and apparatchiks were angels,…

— Vladimir Sorokin

Tens of millions of Russian people died, fighting all sorts of Western expansionism. They defeated Nazism. They helped to liberate much of our world…

— Andre Vltchek

Most of my childhood revolved around wondering when we would be blown up by the Russians. I couldn't stand the news, I knew that…

— Jane Smiley

The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not…

— Fareed Zakaria

From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.

— Leon Trotsky

As awful as the crimes of Stalinism were, the vast majority of the Russian population was trying to survive, to love, to have a…

— Amor Towles

I'm enthralled by the national yearning that the Russians had during the 50s and 60s. The whole century was pretty rough for them. They…

— George Meyer

I have argued that the Soviet story is one of the interaction of speculative excess or utopian aspirations with refractory reality.

— Paul Craig Roberts

“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

“The ancient bond between the tsarist state and Russian nationalism could be used to create powerful emotions when the enemy came from the heathen…

— Orlando Figes

“If the Russian people and the Russian elite remembered - viscerally, emotionally remembered - what Stalin did to the Chechens, they could not have…

— Anne Applebaum

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