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“It may well be that the Bolsheviks' greatest strength in 1917 was not strict party organization and discipline (which scarcely existed at this time)…

— Sheila Fitzpatrick

What happened in Russia in 1917 wasn't a revolution - it was a coup d'etat.

— Margaret Thatcher

“The Bolshevik Revolution, which had happened only a quarter century earlier, had in contrast involved the embrace of concentrated authority as a means of…

— John Lewis Gaddis

The theory of the permanent revolution, in contradiction to the theory of socialism in one country, was recognized by the entire Bolshevik party during…

— Leon Trotsky

Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none.

— Peter Kropotkin

In 1917 there was not a single Bolshevik who considered possible the realization of a socialist society in a single country, and least of…

— Leon Trotsky

The Russian revolution did not occur until a generation after Marx's death. He was not involved with it, or with what came after it.…

— Allen W. Wood

“Lenin only believes in the revolution and in the virtue of expediency.'One must be prepared for every sacrifice, to use, if necessary, every stratagem,…

— albert camus

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

“Lenin turned to page 2 of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. There, a short report informed of a revolution in Petrograd. Lenin, too, looked u…

— China Miéville

“Everyone starved. Starvation is a potent weapon, and the Bolsheviks are happy to wield it. The cheapest way to get rid of the opposition…

— Jane Smiley

“In order to mount a revolution, numbers are never enough. Revolutions are usually made by small networks of agitators rather than by the masses.…

— Yuval Noah Harari