Apolitical Quote by Vladimir Sorokin

I jabbered too much in class about all the Russian writers whom I admired for being, among other things, uncouth and somewhat humorously melodramatic,…

— Richard Elman

I remember reading Dostoevsky's 'The Idiot' in my grandmother's Moscow apartment and feeling this call to be a better person.

— Keith Gessen

That is almost the whole of Russian literature: the phenomenal coruscations of the souls of quite commonplace people.

— D. H. Lawrence

“He studied the people of Moscow at the theaters, in the clubs, in the streets, looking for the types he needed. A great many…

— Leo Tolstoy

We had a general awareness, for example, of Russian use of social media - Facebook ads, use of Twitter, fake news implants - we…

— James R. Clapper

I am not a follower of Moscow, but its victim.

— Fidel Castro

When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So…

— Tadashi Shoji

There is a long dishonourable tradition of western intellectuals who have been duped by Moscow. The list includes Bernard Shaw, the Webbs, H. G.…

— Luke Harding

We study, as Americans, the extreme aspects of repression under the Stalinist era. We're focused on them. The vast majority of Russian citizens, it…

— Amor Towles

It was probably one of the things that gave me a sense of possibility and allowed for me to see beyond the small community…

— Kehinde Wiley

“At the time of the October Revolution, the Russian intellectual elite had been both a part and a partner to the European conversation about…

— Masha Gessen

“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