October Revolution Quotes

The "October Revolution" is a myth generated by the winners, the Bolsheviks, and swallowed whole by progressive circles in the West.

First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.

Yesterday Kerensky; today Lenin and Trotsky; another tomorrow.

Lenin was a Russian bourgeois who cursed the weakness and ineptitude of the Russian bourgeoisie

In the early days of the Russian Revolution in 1917, I was completely in sympathy with it. I felt that it established a new era in the history of the modern world. I was so overwhelmed by it that, if people made any unfriendly comment, I would vigorously defend it. If people condemned the Communist party, I would speak in its defense.

There is no example in history of a revolutionary movement involving such gigantic masses being so bloodless.

The Bolshevik revolution was a counter-revolution. Its first moves were to destroy and eliminate every socialist tendency that had developed in the pre-revolutionary period. Their goal was as they said; it wasn't a big secret. They regarded the Soviet Union as sort a backwater. They were orthodox Marxists, expecting a revolution in Germany. They moved toward what they themselves called "state capitalism," then they moved on to Stalinism. They called it democracy and called it socialism. The one claim was as ludicrous as the other.

All power to the Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies.

What happened in Russia in 1917 wasn't a revolution - it was a coup d'etat.

Ten days that shook the world.

It can't work—for Lenin and Trotsky are both extremely unpopular.... Lenin ... will never be able to dominate the Russian people.

Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.

Now that the great revolution has come one feels that however intelligent Lenin may be he begins to fade beside the genius of Trotsky

The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power.

Capitalism has been fully restored in Yugoslavia, as is well-known, but this capitalism knows how to disguise. Yugoslavia portrays itself as a socialist state, but of a special kind, as the world has never seen it before! The Titoites even boast that their state has nothing in common with the first socialist state which emerged from the socialist October Revolution and which was founded by Lenin and Stalin on the basis of the scientific theory of Marx and Engels.

In the appendix to my History of the Russian Revolution I give a detailed and documented study of the ideas of the Bolshevik party on the October revolution. This study, I hope, will make it impossible in the future to ascribe to [Vladimir] Lenin the theory of Socialism in a single country.

Nothing to bother about, the man was a Bolshevik.

The collapse of Russia was the second great event of 1917.

Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live.

We must accept that the phase of social development which began with the October Revolution has exhausted its driving force.

Trotsky found out about him - Leon Trotsky - because A.J.[Muste] worked. He was an activist. And he organized the first sit-in strike in Toledo in a factory. And Trotsky was very impressed with that.

I suspect in Lenin's works there's everything, if you search well.

… the great mischief-maker Lenin

At the time of the Revolution, dogs howled day and night all over Russia.