Home > Work > Lenin on the Train

Lenin on the Train QUOTES

Lenin on the Train QUOTES

1 " the sound of tramping feet beat out a requiem for the old world - but no one could be sure where it might lead "

― Catherine Merridale , Lenin on the Train

2 " Like many compositions of its kind - all muscles, square jaws and sunshine - it is stronger on the socialism than the reality "

― Catherine Merridale , Lenin on the Train

3 " As modern tyrannies are swept away (and every honest heart delights), the quick-thinking servants of the world’s great powers still proffer plans to intervene, to jostle, scheme and sponsor factions that they barely understand. "

― Catherine Merridale , Lenin on the Train

4 " The history of Lenin’s train is not exclusively the property of the Soviets. In part, it is a parable about great-power intrigue, and one rule there is that great powers almost always get things wrong. "

― Catherine Merridale , Lenin on the Train

5 " An oppressed class which does not strive to learn the use of weapons [the Russian word, oruzhiia, contains another wonderful long r], to practice the use of weapons, to own weapons, deserves to be mistreated … The demand for disarmament in the present-day world is nothing but an expression of despair. "

― Catherine Merridale , Lenin on the Train

6 " Human dignity is something one need not look for in the world of capitalists. V. I. Lenin "

― Catherine Merridale , Lenin on the Train

7 " Sometimes a scoundrel is useful to our party precisely because he is a scoundrel. V. I. Lenin "

― Catherine Merridale , Lenin on the Train

8 " Kerensky he dismissed in yet another snappy line, describing him as ‘a balalaika on which they play to deceive the workers and peasants’. "

― Catherine Merridale , Lenin on the Train