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“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

“Doesn't their superiority consist in there being fewer traces of the slaveowner in them than in us?' Nikolai”

— Anton Chekhov

“In the mind of the ordinary peasant the Tsar was not just a kingly ruler but a god on earth. He thought of him…

— Orlando Figes

“Everything seemed pleasant and easy to Nikolai during the first part of his stay in Voronezh and, as generally happens when a man is…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Dominika shuddered inside. The Kremlin. Majestic buildings, gilded ceilings, soaring halls, all filled to the rafters with deceit, rapacious greed, and cruelty. A Palace…

— Jason Matthews

“Granted, many of them replied, that socialism may not result in riches for all but rather in a smaller production of wealth; nevertheless the…

— Ludwig von Mises

“Chekhov, knowing the weight of his own country’s history of serfdom, spoke of how Russians must squeeze the slave out of themselves, drop by…

— Adam Hochschild

“The Soviet regime robbed people not only of their ability to live freely but also of the ability to understand fully what had been…

— Masha Gessen

“The Rusanovs loved the People, their great People. They served the People and were ready to give their lives for the People. But as…

— Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

Vladimir Putin inherited a ransacked and bewildered country, with a poor and demoralized people. And he started to do what was possible - a…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“In his Petersburg world people were divided into two quite opposite sorts. One--the inferior sort: the paltry, stupid, and, above all, ridiculous people who…

— Leo Tolstoy

“In liberation theology, Marxism is never treated as a subject on its own but always from and in relation to the poor. Placing themselves…

— Leonardo Boff and Clodovis Boff