Disciple Quote by Ludwig von Mises

Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.

— Garet Garrett

There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed.

— Natan Sharansky

Under Stalin, artists weren't dissidents; all they hoped was to survive and write.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

Stalin's methods did not help.

— Anastas Mikoyan

There would be no Lenin without Rasputin.

— Anonymous

Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none.

— Peter Kropotkin

Trotsky was essentially a Western mind. Lenin was a Russian, and unlike most other revolutionary exiles, wherever he went he was a Russian.

— Whittaker Chambers

The Soviet Union was pretty much what Lenin and Trotsky said it was.

— Noam Chomsky

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

It is surely indisputable that no single leader in the twentieth century exerted as great an influence on the course of world history as…

— Dmitri Volkogonov

“It is interesting to ponder the fact that there is no real difference between what the Western Fascists wanted of literature and what the…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Communism, being the lay form of Catholicism, and indeed meaning the same thing, has never had any lack of chaplains.

— George Bernard Shaw