Russia Quotes

“Zinaida Hippius,”
― Antony Beevor, Russia: Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1921

“Brian Horrocks”
― Antony Beevor, Russia: Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1921

“In early July Japanese and American troops fought side by side, guarding the mines at Suchan from a Red attack. The Americans were commanded by Colonel Robert L. Eichelberger, who received several decorations from the Japanese including the Order of the Rising Sun. Yet twenty-six years later, it was Eichelberger’s Eighth Army which finally defeated the Japanese in the Philippines.”
― Antony Beevor, Russia: Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1921

“Dunsterville relished the paradoxes of his situation. ‘A British General on the Caspian,’ he wrote, ‘the only sea unploughed before by British keels, on board a ship named after a South African president and [former] enemy, sailing from a Persian port, under the Serbian flag, to relieve from the Turks a body of Armenians in a revolutionary Russian town.”
― Antony Beevor, Russia: Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1921

“The bourgeoisie has to be throttled and for that we need both hands free.”
― Antony Beevor, Russia: Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1921

“This was a deliberate strategy. ‘Although an insurrection can win on the offensive,’ Trotsky admitted, ‘it develops better the more it looks like self-defence.”
― Antony Beevor, Russia: Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1921

“One of the Bolsheviks’ great strengths at a time when the masses had little political sophistication was to make their orators repeat slogans, not to try to convince their audience through argument (a technique which still seems to work).”
― Antony Beevor, Russia: Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1921

“Open minds never stood a chance against the ruthless single-mindedness of the Bolsheviks.”
― Antony Beevor, Russia: Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1921

“Russians in Kiev never expected the Ukrainian forces to put up much of a fight. Deliberately ignoring the reality of Ukrainian culture and history, they had taken Ukrainian patriotism as little more than a joke.”
― Antony Beevor, Russia: Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1921

“regeneration of the entire social body.”
― Antony Beevor, Russia: Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1921