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March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 2 QUOTES

March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 2 QUOTES

1 " An assistant police officer who’d been arrested yesterday lived in a particular building. Even today from time to time people would come up and shoot at his windows. But there were other apartments in the building, too. “That’s what freedom’s for. I shoot wherever I want. "

― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn , March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 2

2 " no one was an authority in Petrograd right now—not a commissar, not the Soviet of Deputies, and especially not the Duma Committee. The fullness of authority belonged to the crowd. Its authority was taking the law into its own hands, "

― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn , March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 2

3 " That was what revolution was! Retribution! Retribution first and foremost! "

― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn , March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 2

4 " Marx and Engels said that disorganizing the army was the condition for a victorious revolution and also its result. "

― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn , March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 2

5 " Voting meant raising an empty hand—raising, lowering, it’s not hard, that we can do. Sort of like an oath. Do away with the police—good. "

― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn , March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 2