FINAL QUOTES MEMORISEEEEEEEE Flashcards
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John Reed on the difference of the Bolsheviks
the only people in Russia who had a definite program of action while the others talked for eight long months
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Tom Ryan Constituent Assembly
The drift towards authoritarian rule was shown by the fate of the Constituent Assembly
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Richard Pipes on violence
The machine gun became for them the principle instrument of political persuasion
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Orlando Figes on the peasants
a distant thing in the city
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Lenin on towns v rural
The town cannot be equal to the country…the town inevitably leads the country
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Sheila Fitzpatrick on Treaty of Brest Litovsk
a calculated decision by the Bolsheviks to secure their hold on power and prioritize the interests of the socialist revolution over those of the nation
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Alan Taylor on international revolution
After the treaty of Riga, Soviet Russia retreated…Avowedly and almost unconsciously, the Soviet leaders abandoned the cause of international revolution.
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Bolshevik ideology after Soviet-Polish war
“Socialism in one country”
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Boris Ponomarev
Soviet Russia found herself in a ring of fire
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Commissar of Justice Nikolai Krylenko
Execution of the innocent will impress the masses even more
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Decree on Red Terror
anyone involved in white guard organisations, conspiracies and rebellions
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Robert Service on Terror
Lenin, Trotsky and Dzerzhinsky believed that over-killing was better than running the risk of being overthrown.
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Richard Pipes on Terror
the ‘Red Terror’ was not a reluctant response to the actions of others but a…measure designed to nip in the bud any thoughts of resistance to the dictatorship
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Adcock on murder of the imperial family
The murder of the Tsar and imperial family was also more an act of Terror than a security measure
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Orlando Figes on Terror
the Reds were not to blame for the ‘extraordinary measures’…they had to act decisively and quickly to defend their revolution against counter-revolutionaries