Father Quote by Orlando Figes

What happened in Russia in 1917 wasn't a revolution - it was a coup d'etat.

— Margaret Thatcher

Time and time again, the obstinate refusal of the tsarist regime to concede reforms turned what should have been a political problem into a…

— Orlando Figes

“It has been said that most revolutions are not caused by revolutionaries in the first place, but by the stupidity and brutality of governments,”

— Malcolm Gladwell

“Thus the Russian working class had contradictory characteristics for a Marxist diagnosing its revolutionary potential. Yet the empirical evidence of the period from the…

— Sheila Fitzpatrick

Let us not be so naive as to think that revolution is just a matter of social or economic discontent.

— Ferdinand Marcos

My grandfather had come over as a member of the czarist army, to make an arms deal with the British government. Being a blinkered…

— Helen Mirren

“With the Russian Empire teetering on the brink of collapse, the tsarist regime responded to the crises with its usual incompetence and obstinacy. The…

— Orlando Figes

“In order to mount a revolution, numbers are never enough. Revolutions are usually made by small networks of agitators rather than by the masses.…

— Yuval Noah Harari

The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary.

— Karl Liebknecht

“...revolutionary nationalism was by far the most successful radical tide of the the twentieth century.”

— Terry Eagleton

There is no other revolution except consciousness. It cuts the desires from the very roots and it brings freedom to you.

— Rajneesh

Citizens, did you want a revolution without revolution?

— Maximilien Robespierre