Apparatus Quote by Michael Johns

“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

We lived in a totalitarian system for more than 70 years, and our views are still under its influence. Many heads of state in…

— Irakli Okruashvili

“When ideology has become total through its possession of total power, and has changed from partial truth to totalitarian falsehood, historical thought has been…

— Guy Debord

For 73 years a totalitarian regime ruled the country. Totalitarian regime.

— Aleksandr Lebed

The history of totalitarian regimes is reflected in the evolution and perfection of the instruments of terror and more especially the police.

— Carl Joachim Friedrich

“The degeneration of the revolution in Russia does not pass from the revolution for communism to the revolution for a developed kind of capitalism,…

— Amadeo Bordiga

I think that Russia was like a lot of other countries, a lot of empires, in being a tyranny up until the early 20th…

— Masha Gessen

Leninism is Marxism of the era of imperialism and the proletarian revolution.

— Joseph Stalin

“Convinced that their own ideas were the key to the future of the world, that the fate of humanity rested on the outcome of…

— Orlando Figes

However much an ideologue tries to bury [Lenin] beneath a proof by historical analysis, there is always this one man standing their on the…

— Louis Althusser

We have been living amidst one of the great revolutions of human history, and we hardly know it: the penetration of the State into…

— Joseph Sobran

“History can familiarize, and it can warn. In the late nineteenth century, just as in the late twentieth century, the expansion of global trade…

— Timothy Snyder