Biographies Quote by Robert C. Tucker

“There were no disagreements in Stalin’s universe, only heresies; no critics, only enemies; no errors, only crimes. The trials served both to illustrate Stalin’s…

— Tony Judt

“Father Dmitry had thought he had been serving his nation by spreading trust, and fighting abortion and despair, but, in doing so, he was…

— Oliver Bullough

“And as the story unfolded before the Ervin committee, it began to take on the characteristics of a Russian novel. Someone we had never…

— Elizabeth Drew

“Her profession? Ah! as to that, English readers, try not to be too severe. Russia is a great, but hard mistress, who demands of…

— Emmuska Orczy

“In Russia, perhaps truth and tragedy were always intertwined.”

— Laura Rose

“Once in power, Stalin’s campaign to succeed Lenin required a legitimate heroic career which he did not possess because of his experience in what…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

I think an alliance with Stalin's Russia is rotten.

— Ezra Pound

“When you saw the exquisite pair team of Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov, whether on ice or off, you wished everyone could know a…

— Donna Lynn Hope

“History alone – the sum of empirically discoverable data – held the key to the mystery of why what happened happened as it did…

— Isaiah Berlin

“What did Volenski know of how he stood in the eyes of the Russian police? Living mostly abroad and consorting in a great measure…

— Emmuska Orczy

“dangers of her past. She cared about what he provided in an otherwise dangerous world. “Russia is a hard place,” she said quietly, “or…

— Danielle Steel

Moscow was, as some said, the most beautiful mistress a man could ever want, but never cross her: like any good woman, she might…

— Marjorie M. Liu