Between the lines Quote by Raymond Pettibon

I read Russian literature a lot.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

It is sometimes said that one of the casualties of the general suspicion and mistrust that permeated the old Soviet Union was that the…

— Simon Blackburn

“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

Did you know that there is no exact rhyme in the Russian language for the word 'pravda'? Ponder and weigh this insufficiency in your…

— Julian Barnes

Russian literature got me interested in what literature means.

— Elif Batuman

“When reason, common sense, and decency are assaulted often enough, then personality is crippled, and human intelligence disintegrates or is warped. The barrier between…

— Frank Ellis

If Russians knew how to read, they would write me off.

— Catherine the Great

A Russian Reversal quote on Uncyclopedia's Soviet Union article? How original.

— Yakov Smirnoff

One of the major principles is that Soviet literature must be inseverably linked with the policy of the Communist party

— Nikita Khrushchev

The Russian Bolsheviks have discovered that truth does not matter so long as there is reiteration. They have no difficulty whatever in countering a…

— Winston Churchill

First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Textbooks are Soviet propaganda.

— Jerry Falwell