Chiefs Quote by Whittaker Chambers

What distinguished the First World War from all wars before it was the massive power of the antagonists.

— Paul Keating

Communism is Judaism. The Jewish Revolution in Russia was in 1918.

— Henry Hamilton Beamish

“Both the United States and the Soviet Union had been born in revolution. Both embraced ideologies with global aspirations: what worked at home, their…

— John Lewis Gaddis

The First World War was a war devoid of any virtue. It arose from the quagmire of European tribalism: a complex interplay of nation-state…

— Paul Keating

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

— Karl Liebknecht

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

— Margaret Thatcher

The first 'world' war was in reality the last European war fought by globally significant European powers.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars,

— Pat Barker

“THE FIRST WORLD WAR was a tragic and unnecessary conflict. Unnecessary because the train of events that led to its outbreak might have been…

— John Keegan

“The First World War; the Russian revolution of 1917; Hitler's revolution of 1933; the second World War; the further development of revolutionary wars since…

— Jacques Ellul

The First World War created the Second World War because that was a war between three grandsons of Queen Victoria: The King of England,…

— Tony Benn

War was ... the chief or maybe the only source of patriotism, and many a politician, from prehistory up to this morning, unified a…

— Barbara Holland