Father Quote by Orlando Figes

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

“The ancient bond between the tsarist state and Russian nationalism could be used to create powerful emotions when the enemy came from the heathen…

— Orlando Figes

“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

Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence. A few hanging together can lead…

— Wynton Marsalis

“The only real recourse that [Russian] people had against tsarist rule was violence and rebellion. It was once remarked that Russia's constitution was "absolutism…

— Alan Beattie

In the end [after the 1905 revolution], Russia gained nothing more than a breathing spell.

— Richard Pipes

“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

There has been hardly a single year since 1917, and in a certain sense since 1905, without a revolution somewhere in the world in…

— Ernest Mandel

I am the epitome of the underdog. By societies standards I should have been dead a long time ago, and I was nobody's gangster,…

— Michael K. Williams

I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity…

— Francis Bacon

From '86 until the summer of last year, wherever I went, people would say, You would have made a great James Bond! Weren't you…

— Pierce Brosnan

And the United States of America should have been at the front of that line. And was not. ...

— Kimberley Strassel