THE NEW SOCIETY
“The attempt to overthrow the Bolsheviks after the revolution produced cruelties indeed, but the revolutionary process abolished a regime of despair and created a new word of hope.”
Christopher Hill
“Lenin […] was dedicated to the ultimate goal of communism. He wanted power for a purpose. He was determined that the Bolsheviks should initiate the achievement of a world without exploitation and oppression.”
Robert Service
“In everything he did, Lenin’s ultimate purpose was the pursuit of power.
Orlando Figes
“He did not establish a dictatorship to safeguard the revolution, he made a revolution to establish a dictatorship.”
Orlando Figes
“…despite the fact that millions of honest people, led by the ‘vanguard of the revolution’, laboured for it, the utopia remained a fairy-tale”.
Dimitri Volkogonov
“They wanted their revolution to transform the world, but it was very clear during the NEP how much of the old world had survived”
Sheila Fitzpatrick
“Most Bolshevik leaders had never liked the NEP, regarding it as an excrescent boil on the body politic and at worst a malignant cancer”.
Robert Service
“Having defeated the Whites, who were backed up by no fewer than eight western powers, the Bolsheviks surrendered to the peasantry” (on the NEP).
Orlando Figes
“The attempt to overthrow the Bolsheviks after the revolution produced cruelties indeed, but the revolutionary process abolished a regime of despair and created a new word of hope.”
Christopher Hill
“Lenin […] was dedicated to the ultimate goal of communism. He wanted power for a purpose. He was determined that the Bolsheviks should initiate the achievement of a world without exploitation and oppression.”
Robert Service
“In everything he did, Lenin’s ultimate purpose was the pursuit of power.
Orlando Figes
“He did not establish a dictatorship to safeguard the revolution, he made a revolution to establish a dictatorship.”
Orlando Figes
“…despite the fact that millions of honest people, led by the ‘vanguard of the revolution’, laboured for it, the utopia remained a fairy-tale”.
Dimitri Volkogonov
“They wanted their revolution to transform the world, but it was very clear during the NEP how much of the old world had survived”
Sheila Fitzpatrick
“Most Bolshevik leaders had never liked the NEP, regarding it as an excrescent boil on the body politic and at worst a malignant cancer”.
Robert Service
“Having defeated the Whites, who were backed up by no fewer than eight western powers, the Bolsheviks surrendered to the peasantry” (on the NEP).
Orlando Figes