Lost Kingdom Quotes

“In the state envisioned by Stalin, the Russians would have continued to share all those features with the empire, now renamed a Union. In Lenin’s state, they had no choice but to start acquiring an identity separate from the imperial one. Almost by default, Lenin became the father of the modern Russian nation, while the Soviet Union became its cradle.”
― Serhii Plokhy, Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation

“The most confusing aspect of the term “Russian Revolution” is that it obscures what actually took place in the multiethnic Russian Empire—a revolution of nations, of which the Russians were only one.”
― Serhii Plokhy, Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation