Dissent Quote by Norman Davies

“It may well be that the Bolsheviks' greatest strength in 1917 was not strict party organization and discipline (which scarcely existed at this time)…

— Sheila Fitzpatrick

“When the Bolsheviks came to power they were soft and easy with their enemies... we had begun by making a mistake. Leniency towards such…

— Joseph Stalin

“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

Under the leaden sway of Alexander III's government, the silence of the graveyard prevailed. Russian society, equally discouraged by the collapse of all hopes…

— Rosa Luxemburg

The social model of the Bolsheviks failed, as will any model that denies individual rights, intellectual freedom, and freedom of competing political parties. Without…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

“A few weeks later, in the middle of a cold December night, the pair, along with 247 other radicals, were herded onto a freighter…

— James McGrath Morris

We study, as Americans, the extreme aspects of repression under the Stalinist era. We're focused on them. The vast majority of Russian citizens, it…

— Amor Towles

All the many brands of suppression - racism, sexism, heterosexism, ageism, classism - are historical; they have not been always with us. It was…

— Clara Fraser

“This is the paradox of public space: even if everyone knows an unpleasant fact, saying it in public changes everything. One of the first…

— Slavoj Žižek

“This is the paradox of public space: even if everyone knows an unpleasant fact, saying it in public changes everything. One of the first…

— Slavoj Žižek

“At the time of the October Revolution, the Russian intellectual elite had been both a part and a partner to the European conversation about…

— Masha Gessen

Come to find out, the Russians were never afraid of the Americans. They weren't raised with the terror that we were by our government.…

— Deidre Hall