Quotes About The October Revolution

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

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#2. It was the Russians that introduced the Chinese to Marxism. Before the October Revolution, the Chinese were not only ignorant of Lenin and Stalin but did not even know of Marx or Engels. The salvos of the October Revolution awoke us to Marxism-Leninism.

Mao Zedong

#3. Behind the October Revolution there are more influential personalities than the thinkers and executors of Marxism.

Vladimir Lenin

#4. All revolutions are bloody. The October Revolution was bloodless, but it was only the beginning

Dmitri Volkogonov

#5. I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure ... Like, why did Paris Commune go wrong? Trotskyites. Why did the October Revolution go wrong? And so on ... OK, we screwed it up, but we can give the best theory why it had to happen.

Slavoj Zizek

#6. I went to the kiosk and bought ten bags of popcorn. I scattered nine on the ground for the pigeons, and sat on a bench to eat the last bag myself. Enough pigeons descended upon the popcorn for a remake of the October Revolution.

Haruki Murakami

#7. My congratulations on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution.

David Rockefeller

#8. America was not willing to chop down the Empire on October 26, 1774, but it was gripping the ax.

C.L. Gammon