Aspirations Quote by Paul Craig Roberts

[2015] it's a time that there's a clash of ideologies, similar to the Cold War. I think that a story like this has been…

— Steven Knight

If you think that the people of the Soviet Union have any desire themselves, and moreover, by force, to alter the face of surrounding…

— Joseph Stalin

“...Russia itself having turned to socialist realism - no-man's-land between surrealism and communism,...”

— John Fowles

“Morally, there was the extreme disappointment at the failure of the classical socialist ideal. The great ideal of Marxism had failed to materialize. The…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

What's happening in Russia is devoid of autobiographical interest for me. Maybe it's egocentric. Whatever it is, feel free to use it.

— Joseph Brodsky

“So you were dissidents? You believed in finishing the USSR?''No. It's not like that. You just speak several languages at the same time, all…

— Peter Pomerantsev

If you had told me twenty years ago that I would write a novel set in Russia, much less two, I simply wouldn't have…

— Debra Dean

Though Stalinism may have been a needless tragedy for both the Russian people and communism as an ideal, there is the intellectually tantalizing possibility…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

I thought that in general we in the United States were too optimistic in believing that the Soviets might alter what had been for…

— Anonymous

“If political scientists couldn’t predict the downfall of the Soviet Union—perhaps the most important event in the latter half of the twentieth century—then what…

— Nate Silver

Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.

— Agnes Smedley

“For the majority of ordinary Russians, especially for those of a certain age who identified themselves as ‘Soviet’, the 1990s were little short of…

— Orlando Figes