March 1917 Quotes

“down with the war! It was simply ridiculous the racket they were making everywhere about how an elective army would give rise to battle capability, discipline would strengthen, and the army would be conscientious! It was going to fall apart, as sure as two times two is four.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 3

“We mustn’t repeat the Commune’s mistakes, its two main mistakes: it did not seize the banks and it was too magnanimous. Instead of cellar executions for the enemy classes, it safeguarded everyone’s life and thought it could reeducate them. There it was, the most ruinous thing threatening the proletariat—this magnanimity in revolution. The proletariat had to be taught pitiless mass methods!”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 3

“A revolution can be defined as the moment when there is no punishment for the crime.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 3