Quotes about Bolshevik

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Nowhere on the planet, nowhere in history, was there a regime more vicious, more bloodthirsty, and at the same time more cunning than the Bolshevik, the self-styled Soviet regime.

Vladimir Lenin

No Bolshevik, no Communist, no intelligent socialist has ever entertained the idea of violence against the middle peasants. All socialists have always spoken of agreement with them and of their gradual and voluntary transition to socialism.

Vladimir Lenin. Actually, when the peasants resisted collectivization the Russian State did use violence and intimidation. And Stalin later completely ignored this principle and brutalized the peasantry.

Vladimir Mikhailovich Zenzinov

The only thing the Socialist [Communist] party could do for the peasant--said the Bolsheviks--was to help organize the paid agricultural laborers.

Zenzinov was often a critic of the Bolsheviks.

Rick Perlstein

I'm just a Bolshevik with a laptop.

Georges Simenon

Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person.

Alfred Eckhard Zimmern

… the great mischief-maker Lenin

Only 6 years after the Russian Revolution Lenin was already being perceived as an international provocateur and instigator of problems.

Kent Hovind

Evolution was Vladimir Ilich Lenin's problem. Lenin lead the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 and took over Russia. He killed the Zar [ sic ] and his family in cold blood. There would not be communism in Russia today if had not been for Charles Darwin's book on evolution.

Bolshevik Quotes