QUOTES Flashcards
QUOTES: RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR
- Tsar: The Japanese are…
- RS: The Japanese are giving it to us with…
- Plehve: A little victorious…
- Pipes: Origins of the Russo-Japanese conflict have long…
TSAR: “The Japanese are infidels. The might of the holy Russia will crush them”
RUSSIAN SOLDIER: “The Japanese are giving it to us with shells, we’re giving it to them with icons”
PLEHVE: “A little victorious war to stem the revolution”
PIPES: “Origins of the Russo-Japanese conflict have long been distorted by the self-serving accounts of Sergei Witte”… “Bore a great blame for the war through his vigorous economic policy in the Far East”
QUOTES: BLOODY SUNDAY
- Gapon: There is no God…
- Figes: “Formed something more like a….
- CPSU: Received a bloody lesson…
- About the Tsar: Little…
- About the Tsar: Nicholas the…
GAPON: “There is no God any longer. There is no Tsar”
FIGES: “Formed something more like a religious procession than a workers’ demonstration”
COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE SOVIET UNION: “Received a bloody lesson, it was their faith in the tsar that was riddled by the bullets on that day”
ABOUT THE TSAR: “Little Father”
ABOUT THE TSAR: “Nicholas the bloody”
QUOTES: 1905 REVOLUTION
- Tsar: Rioting and disturbance in the…
TSAR: “Rioting and disturbances in the capitals and in many localities of Our Empire fill Our heart with great and heavy grief”
QUOTES: THE DUMAS
- Tsar: Curse the…
TSAR: “Curse the Duma. It’s all Witte’s fault”
QUOTES: WORLD WAR ONE
- Friedrich Engels: War is the mid-wife….
- Nikolaevich: I have no…
- General Brusilov: Although the word…
FRIEDRICH ENGELS: “War is the mid-wife of every old society pregnant with a new one”
NIKOLAEVICH: “I have no rifles, no shells, no boots”
GENERAL BRUSILOV: “Although the word ‘Tsar’ still had magical power over the troops, he utterly lacked the charisma to bring that magic to life”
QUOTES: FEBRUARY REVOLUTION
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RODZIANKO: “The country has everything it needs but cannot make adequate use of it”
TSARINA ALEXANDRA: “This is a hooligan movement, young people run and shout that there is no bread”
RODZIANKO: “The main reason is the absolute distrust in the authorities “..”Threatened with humiliation and disgrace”
FEDOR LINDE: “To arms! To arms! They are killing innocent people, our brothers and sisters!”
QUOTES: FEBRUARY REVOLUTION
RODZIANKO: “The country has everything it needs but cannot make adequate use of it”
TSARINA ALEXANDRA: “This is a hooligan movement, young people run and shout that there is no bread”
RODZIANKO: “The main reason is the absolute distrust in the authorities “..”Threatened with humiliation and disgrace”
FEDOR LINDE: “To arms! To arms! They are killing innocent people, our brothers and sisters!”
QUOTES: THE TSAR ABDICATES
- Tsar: If it is necessary, for Russia’s…
TSAR: “If it is necessary, for Russia’s good, that I step aside, I am prepared to do so”
QUOTES: THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT
ALEXANDER KERENSKY: “The Soviet had power without authority… the Provisional Government had authority without power”
ALEXANDER KERENSKY: “The old regime has left everything in chaos”
QUOTES: LENIN’S APRIL THESES
- Lenin: Absolute distrust…
LENIN: “Absolute distrust, no support for the Provisional Government”
QUOTES: THE JUNE OFFENSIVE
- Alexander Kerensky: For the sake of the nation’s…
ALEXANDER KERENSKY: “For the sake of the nation’s life it was necessary to restore the army’s will to die”
QUOTES: THE JULY DAYS
PRINCE GEORGI LVOV: “The only way to save the country now is to close down the Soviet and shoot the people. I cannot do that. But Kerensky can”
LENIN: “Peace, Bread, and Land”
PIPES: “A failed Bolshevik coup d’etat”
FITZPATRICK: “Exposed the weakness of the Bolsheviks”
FITZPATRICK: “Caught off balance. They had talked insurrection, in a general way, but not planned”
QUOTES: KORNILOV AFFAIR
- Kornilov: Time to hand the German…
- Kerensky: Turned to the…
KORNILOV: “Time to hang the German supporters and spies” “Disperse the Soviet”
KERENSKY: Turned to the soviets for assistance”
QUOTES: SOVNARKOM
- Lenin: Council of People’s…
QUOTES: CHEKA
- Volkginov: Like the sound…. che-ka….
LENIN: “Council of People’s commissars. That is splendid. That smells of revolution”
VOLKGINOV: “Like the sound of a bolt being shot, the two syllables, Che-ka, would stop any conversation”
QUOTES: CIVIL WAR
- Mikhail Bulhakov: They year 1919…
- Mayakovsky (Russian poet): They came and thought…
MIKHAIL BULGAKOV: “The year 1919 was even more terrible”
MAYAKOVSKY: “They came and thought they’d win, But got their heads bashed in”
