56 Quotes About Russian-revolution

Pavel devam etti: “Anacığım, sizin inandığınız iyi yürekli, merhametli Tanrı’dan söz etmiyorum ben, papazların bizi sopa gibi korkuttuğu Tanrı’dan, bazılarının, adına insanları boyun eğmeye zorladığı Tanrı’dan söz ediyorum.

Halkı en acımasızca ve en sık aldatanlar ufak tefek, göbekli, kırmızı suratlı, vicdansız, açgözlü, kurnaz ve acımasız insanlardı.

Onun uğruna ölen insanlar olmasaydı İsa diye biri olmayacaktı.

For virtually all the socialist revolutions of the twentieth century, it was not a crisis of the capitalist system, but imperialist war that pushed old orders into crisis...

The only mercy Trotsky granted the Germans, as formal negotiations began at Brest-Litovsk on December 9, was not to show up in person.

The Russian Civil War lasts almost six years and ends in victory for the Bolsheviks. It claims the lives of more than 10 million people—five times more than the number of Russian casualties in the First World War, which the Bolsheviks promised to end. Of that figure, 2.5 million are killed in battle, another 2 million fall victim to the Red (and White) Terror, while around 6 million die from hunger and disease. On top of that, approximately 2 million emigrate.

Russian history is an illness. Our history has made us all sick. I do not want to die from this illness.

The revolution does not need historians.

The Provisional Government had lost effective military control of the capital a full two days before the armed uprising began. This was the essential fact of the whole insurrection: without it one cannot explain the ease of the Bolshevik victory.