Conspiracy theories Quote by Sheila Fitzpatrick

Western intellectuals, and also Third World intellectuals, were attracted to the Bolshevik counter-revolution because Leninism is, after all, a doctrine which says that the…

— Noam Chomsky

From the days of Spartacus, Weishophf, Karl Marx, Trotski, Belacoon, Rosa Luxenburg, and Ema Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing. This conspiracy…

— Winston Churchill

In the appendix to my History of the Russian Revolution I give a detailed and documented study of the ideas of the Bolshevik party…

— Leon Trotsky

The language of these Soviet show trials... could only be understood in the Aesopian imagery of the closed Bolshevik universe of conspiracies of evil…

— Simon Sebag-Montefiore

Trotsky was essentially a Western mind. Lenin was a Russian, and unlike most other revolutionary exiles, wherever he went he was a Russian.

— Whittaker Chambers

Tens of millions of Russian people died, fighting all sorts of Western expansionism. They defeated Nazism. They helped to liberate much of our world…

— Andre Vltchek

The Bolshevik revolution was a counter-revolution. Its first moves were to destroy and eliminate every socialist tendency that had developed in the pre-revolutionary period.…

— Noam Chomsky

The Russians have succeeded in one thing: they have sold the world the idea that they represent socialism and the ideas of Marx,and we…

— Erich Fromm

You must understand, the leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The argument, now, is about whether Bolshevik Russia was 'better' than Nazi Germany. In the days when the New Left dawned, the argument was…

— Martin Amis

“The German leaders, said Winston Churchill, turned upon Russia the most grisly of all weapons. They transported Lenin in a sealed truck like a…

— Robert K. Massie

The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary.

— Karl Liebknecht