Appendix Quote by Leon Trotsky

The theory of the permanent revolution, in contradiction to the theory of socialism in one country, was recognized by the entire Bolshevik party during…

— Leon Trotsky

The Bolshevik revolution was a counter-revolution. Its first moves were to destroy and eliminate every socialist tendency that had developed in the pre-revolutionary period.…

— Noam Chomsky

“For the information of these “friends” who consider themselves called to defend against us the role of the Bolsheviks in the October Revolution, we…

— Leon Trotsky

“Thus the Russian working class had contradictory characteristics for a Marxist diagnosing its revolutionary potential. Yet the empirical evidence of the period from the…

— Sheila Fitzpatrick

The "October Revolution" is a myth generated by the winners, the Bolsheviks, and swallowed whole by progressive circles in the West.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Lenin only believes in the revolution and in the virtue of expediency.'One must be prepared for every sacrifice, to use, if necessary, every stratagem,…

— albert camus

“At the time of the October Revolution, the Russian intellectual elite had been both a part and a partner to the European conversation about…

— Masha Gessen

“The Bolshevik Revolution, which had happened only a quarter century earlier, had in contrast involved the embrace of concentrated authority as a means of…

— John Lewis Gaddis

In 1917 there was not a single Bolshevik who considered possible the realization of a socialist society in a single country, and least of…

— Leon Trotsky

The Russian revolution did not occur until a generation after Marx's death. He was not involved with it, or with what came after it.…

— Allen W. Wood

The theory of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin is universally applicable. We should regard it not as a dogma, but as a guide to…

— Mao Zedong

“It may well be that the Bolsheviks' greatest strength in 1917 was not strict party organization and discipline (which scarcely existed at this time)…

— Sheila Fitzpatrick