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Russian Revolution Quotes

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QUOTES ABOUT EVENTS IN TSARIST RUSSIA
Hasegawa- 'The tsarist regime was pregnant with irreconcilable internal contradiction'

Hasegawa- 'The tsarist regime had no capacity to resolve'

Fitzpatrick- 'Russia's working class was militant and revolutionary'
QUOTES ABOUT FORMATION OF THE BOLSHEVIKS AND MENSHEVIKS
Figes- 'Lenin was proposing a centralised party of professional revolutionaries in the tradition of the People's Will'

Pipes- 'Lenin was determined to subordinate the party to his will'
QUOTES ABOUT RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR
Dragomirov- 'The Japanese are beating us with machine guns but never mind, we'll beat them with icons'

Figes- 'The war went from bad to worse, accusing the government of incompetence'
QUOTES ABOUT BLOODY SUNDAY
Pipes- 'Bloody Sunday was Russia's Bastille Day'
Gapon- 'There was no longer a Tsar for us'
QUOTES ABOUT THE ROLE OF THE DUMAS
Figes- 'The Tsarist regime was the single biggest guarantee of it's own political irreformability'
Wood- 'A constitutional autocracy was a political absurdity which was doomed to fail'
QUOTES ABOUT WWI
Figes- 'Victory would not stop the revolution'

Hill- 'War accelerated the development of revolutionary crisis, but their deep lying causes could not be wished away in times of peace'
QUOTES ABOUT THE FEBRUARY REVOLUTION
Chamberlain- ' One of the most leaderless, spontaneous, anonymous revolutions of all time'

Smith- 'February revolution was the result of the collapse of public support for the government'
QUOTE ABOUT THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT
Figes- 'They were deluded into believing that they could resolve the problems of 1917'
QUOTES ABOUT DUAL AUTHORITY
Pipes- ' The fourth duma- even allowing for the restricted franchise on which it had been chosen had a better claim to speak for the country at large'

Kerensky- 'The soviet had power without authority, the provisional government authority without power'
QUOTES ABOUT LENIN'S RETURN/APRIL THESES
Pipes- 'Barely four weeks after tsarist had been overthrown, Lenin was publicly sentencing it's successor to death'

Service- 'Many listeners, or at least those who were close enough to him thought he had gone off his head'
QUOTE ABOUT JULY DAYS
Figes- 'The crowd as yet lacked leadership and direction'
QUOTES ABOUT KORNILOV AFFAIR
Acton- 'The Kornilov affair boosted the fortunes of the Bolsheviks'

Wade- 'Bolsheviks became the political alternative for the disappointed and disenchanted'
QUOTES ABOUT EVENTS OF OCTOBER 1917
Lenin- 'History will not forgive us if we do not take power now'

Figes- 'This was a Leninist Coup, he had managed to impose his will on the rest of the leaders'

Figes- 'The October revolution was such a small-scale event'

Pipes- 'The second congress of soviets had not even opened when the Bolsheviks had already acted in their name'
QUOTES ABOUT NATIONALISM
Witte- 'With many nationalities, many languages, the marvel is that the country can be held together by democratic means'

Figes- 'The Tsarist regime had created another instrument for it's own destruction'
QUOTES ABOUT LIBERAL REFORMISM
Pipes- 'Liberals gave the Imperial Regime greater trouble'

Figes- 'The liberals threw away their best chance to steer the tsarist regime towards constitutional reform'
QUOTE ABOUT REVOLUTIONARY POPULISM
Figes- 'Socialist Revolutionaries believed that workers and peasants were united by their poverty and their opposition to the regime'.
QUOTES ABOUT MARXISM
Figes- 'The scientific nature of Marxist theory intoxicated the Russian radical mind'

Marx- 'The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains'
QUOTES ABOUT MARXIST-LENINISM
Lenin- 'I assert that it is far more difficult to unearth a dozen wise men than a hundred fools'

Figes- 'Lenin was proposing a centralised party of professional revolutionaries'
QUOTES ABOUT NICHOLAS II
Hite- 'weakness of will'

Figes- 'was not weakness of will, was a wilful determination to rule from the throne'
QUOTES ABOUT TSARINA ALEXANDRA
Pipes- 'She manipulated her husband by playing on his sense of duty and suspicious nature'

Figes- 'She urged her husband to be more forceful and to assert his autocratic will'
QUOTES ABOUT COUNT WITTE
Pipes- 'No one was better suited to steer Russia through the revolutionary storms'

Witte- 'I pity the Tsar, he lacks power'
QUOTES ABOUT PYOTR STOLYPIN
Figes- 'The whole purpose of his reforms was to strengthen the tsarist system'

Lynch- 'The regime's terror increased public disorder'
QUOTES ABOUT GREGORY RASPUTIN
Pares- ' Ministers were selected on the test of their subservience'

Longley- ' As the soldiers died pointlessly at the front, corrupt minister leapfrogged corrupt ministers in a struggle for power'
QUOTES ABOUT ALEXANDER KERENSKY
Figes- 'During the final week of the provisional government his behaviour began to resemble that of the last Tsar'

Pipes- ' Thanks to emotionalism he proved incapable of coping with the responsibilities'
QUOTES ABOUT LENIN
Acton- 'For all Lenin's tactical skill, the notion that it was his flawless guidance which brought the party to victory is misleading'

Service- 'Combined straightforward statements of intent with careful political fudges to keep the party with him and the working class on the party's side'
QUOTES ABOUT TROTSKY
Lynch- 'Trotsky moved from being an opponent of Bolshevism to being the director of it's seizure of power'

Figes- ' He still harboured typically Menshevik doubts about Lenin's strict centralism and extremism'
QUOTES ABOUT WORKER'S PROTESTS
Fitzpatrick- 'The workers remained actively revolutionary until the end of the year becoming increasingly militant'

Figes- 'The workers movement had revived with a vengeance in April 1912'
QUOTES ABOUT PEASANT UPRISINGS
Pipes- ' Unlikely to initiate a revolution, the peasants were likely to respond with a revolution of their own'

Figes- ' The Russian peasantry had no moral order to substitute for the tsarist state'
QUOTES ABOUT SOLIDER/SAILOR MUTINIES
Smith- 'Deprived from the support of the army, the July Days, lasted less than 12 days'

Pipes- 'The government lost control of the armed forces and the Soviet became the true master of the country'
QUOTE ABOUT SOCIALIST REVOLUTIONARIES
Figes- ' Socialist Revolutionaries believed workers and peasants were united by their poverty and their opposition to the regime'
QUOTES ABOUT MENSHEVIKS
Brovkin- 'The Mensheviks perceived themselves as orthodox Marxists

Cavendish- 'The Mensheviks unwisely accepted the appellation'
QUOTES ABOUT BOLSHEVIKS
Fitzpatrick- 'It may seem remarkable under these circumstances that the Bolsheviks' October coup actually came off'

Cavendish- 'The Bolsheviks were hardline revolutionaries'
QUOTES ABOUT OCTOBRISTS
Figes- 'The Octobrists were prepared to work for reform only within the existing order to strengthen it'

Fitzpatrick- 'The liberal's withdrew from revolutionary activity'
QUOTES ABOUT KADETS
Lynch- 'The liberal cause had discredited itself'

Figes- 'Kadets were afraid of the Masses.
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