Jobs Quote by Mikhail Tukhachevsky

Tukhachevsky was an especially damaging loss for the army and the state.

— Mikhail Tukhachevsky

Tukhachevsky hid Napoleon's baton in his rucksack.

— Mikhail Tukhachevsky

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

“Party-mindedness” was “an almost mystical concept,” explained Kopelev. “The indispensable prerequisites were iron discipline and faithful observance of all the rituals of Party life.”…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

Lenin was sent into Russia by the Germans in the same way that you might send a phial containing a culture of typhoid or…

— Winston Churchill

By sending Lenin to Russia our (German) Government had, moreover, assumed a great responsibility. From a miliaty point of view his journey was justified,…

— Boris Brasol

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

— Garet Garrett

“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

Under Lenin the Soviet Union was like a religious revival, under Stalin like a prison, under Khrushchev like a circus, and under Brezhnev like…

— Jimmy Carter

With Lenin it was always a substantial commitment. I always have a certain admiration for people who are aware that somebody has to do…

— Slavoj Žižek

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

— Noam Chomsky

“The Bolsheviks placed a premium on the “creative intelligentsia,” as it was termed—writers, artists, and, especially, filmmakers—as well as scholars and scientists. Military officers…

— Masha Gessen