"Carlyle, in his French Revolution, has described the French people as distinguished above all others by their faculty…"

"This book is a slice of intensified history - history as I saw it. It does not pretend to be anything but a detailed …"

"Instead of being a destructive force, it seems tome that the Bolsheviki were the only party in Russia with a construc…"

"No matter what one thinks of Bolshevism, it is undeniable that the Russian Revolution s one of the great events of hu…"

"In the struggle my sympathies were not neutral. But in telling the story of those great day I have tried to see event…"

"So, with the crash of artillery, in the dark, with hatred, and fear, and reckless daring, new Russia was being born."

"The ladies of the minor bureaucratic set took tea with each other in the afternoon, carrying each her little gold or …"

"A soldier was speaking - from the Five Hundred and Forty-eight Division, wherever and whatever that was: "Comrades," …"

"When the land belongs to the peasants, and the factories to the workers, and the power to the Soviets, then we'll kno…"

"Ch.1, p.19"