Above Quote by Mikhail Gorbachev

What happened to the Soviet Union happened mainly for domestic reasons. It was a failure of the model based on a command economy and…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Was the Soviet Union reformable? I would say no. They said, 'Okay, the Soviet Union isn't working.' They would say, 'No, it's great. We…

— Marine Le Pen

What did in the Soviet Union was the Soviet Union.

— Robert Dallek

Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.

— Vladimir Lenin

“One major reason why radical economic reform was almost impossibly difficult to introduce in the Soviet Union was the strength of vested interests –…

— Archie Brown

It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy.

— Anatoly Chubais

Either the USSR was not the country of socialism, in which case socialism didn't exist anywhere and doubtless, wasn't possible: or else, socialism was…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

They [the Soviets] intend...to induce the Americans to adopt their own 'restructuring' and convergence of the Soviet and American systems using to this end…

— Anatoliy Golitsyn

The Soviet system is how everything here works. It's very difficult to break the system. The system is big and inflexible, uneffective, and also…

— Vitali Klitschko

In the 1990s, there was a lot of reform, and there was a lot of forward movement on a lot of fronts in Russia.…

— 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

Resignation was the defining condition of Soviet life.

— Masha Gessen