Crisis Quote by 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

“It amazes me still to this day how quickly the empire fell to pieces. One day the people are kissing the ground upon which…

— Robert Alexander

“The great writer was mortally afraid of the rising generation of young revolutionaries, and imagining, through his ignorance of things, that they held the…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The revolution in Russia was terrible for the proletariat in the long years of its development and it is terrible now, after the victory.…

— Herman Gorter

“Liberalism has been degraded into liberality. Men have tried to turn "revolutionise" from a transitive to an intransitive verb. The Jacobin could tell you…

— G.K. Chesterton

If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.

— Mikhail Bakunin

The refusal of the British and Russian peoples to accept what appeared to be inevitable defeat was the great factor in the salvage of…

— George C. Marshall

Revolutions in Russia are even worse than bad czars.

— Ksenia Sobchak

“Russians love a good plot--camarillas, Masons, whatever--where in fact there is usually just plain sloppiness. Someone mistrusted someone else; someone failed to warn someone…

— Edvard Radzinsky

Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century. As for the Russian…

— Vladimir Putin

“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

“When you destroyed autocratic regimes, you caused more death and suffering than the regime itself, and often ended up with something worse. Your violent…

— Neal Asher