The Russian Revolution Quotes

“learning to read awoke a touching thirst for knowledge. ‘Send me a list of books published on comets, stars, water, the earth, and sky.”
― S.A. Smith, The Russian Revolution: A Very Short Introduction

“The government hoped that it could carry out modernization whilst maintaining tight control over society. Yet the effect of industrialization, urbanization, internal migration, and the emergence of new social classes was to set in train forces that served to erode the foundations of the autocratic state.”
― S.A. Smith, The Russian Revolution: A Very Short Introduction

“Of you capitalists, weeping your crocodile tears, we demand that you stop crying about devastation that you yourselves have created. Your cards are on the table. Your game is up.”
― S.A. Smith, The Russian Revolution: A Very Short Introduction

“I thought who really is my enemy: the Germans or the company commander? I still couldn’t see the Germans, but here in front of me was the commander.”
― S.A. Smith, The Russian Revolution: A Very Short Introduction