Activity Quote by Leon Trotsky

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

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Stalin had developed an interesting new theory: that resistance to socialism increases as its successes mount, because its foes resist with greater desperation as…

— Timothy Snyder

“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

A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is the act whereby one part of the population imposes its will upon…

— Friedrich Engels

Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it…

— Victor Hugo

“Revolution is progressivist and seeks the strengthening of the state; rebellion is reactionary and seeks its disappearance. The revolutionary is a potential government official;…

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

The revolution is an amalgam of former Party functionaries, quasi- democrats, KGB officers, and black-market wheeler-dealers, who are standing in power now and have…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Few revolutions succeed, and when they do, you often discover they did not gain what you hoped for, and you condemn yourself to perpetual…

— Francesco Guicciardini

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

— Benjamin Disraeli

What happened in Russia in 1917 wasn't a revolution - it was a coup d'etat.

— Margaret Thatcher

Revolution did not necessarily involve sanguinary strife. It was not a cult of bomb and pistol. They may sometimes be mere means for its…

— Bhagat Singh

“Most revolutions start small and simmer under the surface gathering strength, adding to an ideology, gaining favourable opinion- first as a credible alternative and…

— Gyan Nagpal