March 1917 Quotes

“no one was an authority in Petrograd right now—not a commissar, not the Soviet of Deputies, and especially not the Duma Committee. The fullness of authority belonged to the crowd. Its authority was taking the law into its own hands,”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 2

“An assistant police officer who’d been arrested yesterday lived in a particular building. Even today from time to time people would come up and shoot at his windows. But there were other apartments in the building, too. “That’s what freedom’s for. I shoot wherever I want.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 2

“Marx and Engels said that disorganizing the army was the condition for a victorious revolution and also its result.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 2

“That was what revolution was! Retribution! Retribution first and foremost!”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 2

“Voting meant raising an empty hand—raising, lowering, it’s not hard, that we can do. Sort of like an oath. Do away with the police—good.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 2