Russian revolution Quote by Sean McMeekin

The Soviet Union was pretty much what Lenin and Trotsky said it was.

— Noam Chomsky

“Zakhar Georgiyevich Travkin could have stopped right there! But no! Continuing his attempt to expunge his part in this and to stand erect before…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I said to the German Ambassador that, as long as there was only a dispute between Austria and Serbia alone, I did not feel…

— Edward Grey

“Next day at the review the Tsar asked Prince Andrey where he desired to serve; and Bolkonsky ruined his chances for ever in the…

— Leo Tolstoy

The courtesy which most becomes a victor was denied to Germany for a long time.

— Gustav Stresemann

“Before them stood a small, erect man who fixed them with a withering gaze, Marshal Ferdinand Foch. After cool introductions, Foch opened the proceedings…

— Joseph E. Persico

“There were a few small slips: after the first lunch on board the Tsar’s yacht Standart, the Kaiser drew Sazonov apart and spoke to…

— Christopher Munro Clark

“He had been there to warn Dutka’s wife and boy. It was an idea of his own, but it worked. They got away.” “The…

— Helen MacInnes

There were nowhere more docile disciples of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin than the Nazis were.

— Ludwig von Mises

“In the great world outside Hungary events were taking place that would change all their lives: the uprising in Russia, the dispute over Crete,…

— Miklós Bánffy

I had furthermore spoken on the assumption that Russia would mobilize, whereas the assumption of the German Government had hitherto been, officially, that Serbia…

— Anonymous

We both agreed that Stalin was determined to hold out against the Germans. He told us he'd never let them get to Moscow. But…

— W. Averell Harriman