Quotes by : Orlando Figes

There is no sadder symbol of the crippling poverty in which millions of peasants were forced to live....

Their notion of training was to march the men up and down in parades and reviews: these were nice to....

Political indoctrination was geared towards producing activists. The propaganda image of the ideal child....

Sveta had much less to say, but she sat with Lev and held his hand, and when I asked her what had made....

I understood that the most terrible thing in life is complete hopelessness... To cross out all the 'maybes'....

Lenin was always prone to overestimate the physical danger to himself: in this respect he was something....