{"quotes":[{"text":"My sisters and I sit together on a pair of suitcases. If we've forgotten anything, it's already too late -- our rooms have all been sealed and photographed. Anyway, Tatiana would say it's bad luck to return for something you've forgotten.","author":"Sarah Miller","tags":["anastasia","exile","otma","romanovs","russia","russian-revolution","traveling","tsar-nicholas-ii","war"],"id":11697,"author_id":"Sarah+Miller"},{"text":"Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumours circulated, photographs faked.","author":"George Orwell","tags":["itarianism","orwell","russian-revolution","satire"],"id":14331,"author_id":"George+Orwell"},{"text":"During the night two delegates of the railwaymen were arrested. The strikers immediately demanded their release, and as this was not conceded, they decided not to allow trains leave the town. At the station all the strikers with their wives and families sat down on the railway track-a sea of human beings. They were threatened with rifles salvoes. The workers bared their breast and cried, 'Shoot!' A salvo was fired into the defenceless seated crowd, and 30 to 40 corpses, among them women and children, remained on the ground. On this becoming known the whole town of Kiev went to strike on the same day. The corpses of the murdered workers were raised on high by the crowd and carried round in mass demonstration.","author":"Rosa Luxemburg","tags":["communism","marxism","october-revolution","rosa-luxemburg","russian-revolution","socialism","the-mass-strike"],"id":74517,"author_id":"Rosa+Luxemburg"},{"text":"Lenin was always prone to overestimate the physical danger to himself: in this respect he was something of a coward.","author":"Orlando Figes","tags":["coward","danger","lenin","russian-revolution"],"id":78325,"author_id":"Orlando+Figes"},{"text":"God save us from seeing a Russian revolt, senseless and merciless. Those who plot impossible upheavals among us, are either young and do not know our people, or are hard-hearted men who do not care a straw either about their own lives or those of others.","author":"Alexander Pushkin","tags":["hard-hearted","revolution","russian-literature","russian-revolution"],"id":117833,"author_id":"Alexander+Pushkin"},{"text":"You are pitiful, isolated individuals! You are bankrupts. Your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on – into the dustbin of history!","author":"Leon Trotksy","tags":["communism","history","marxism","russian-revolution"],"id":135832,"author_id":"Leon+Trotksy"},{"text":"TWO AND TWO MAKES FIVE.","author":"George Orwell","tags":["itarianism","orwell","russian-revolution","satire"],"id":148267,"author_id":"George+Orwell"},{"text":"The immediate difficulty, Florence realised while riding the high rail back to Brooklyn, was how to break the news to her parents, even if she could convince them that being a chaperone to six foreign men was a legitimate occupation for a twenty-three-year-old girl. What choice did she have? A paycheck could not win a girl’s independence.","author":"Sana Krasikov","tags":["20th-century-russia","america","based-on-a-true-story","based-on-real-events","brooklyn","communism","fiction","fiction-novel","love","motherhood","russian-literature","russian-revolution","soviet-literature","soviet-russia","soviet-union"],"id":154446,"author_id":"Sana+Krasikov"},{"text":"Maria cries unashamedly on my shoulder while I whisper and pet her cheek, but Anastasia grips my other hand and stares fiercely back at our Alexander Palace with her wet blue eyes until it is no more than a lemon-colored speck against the sunrise.","author":"Sarah Miller","tags":["anastasia","home","otma","russia","russian-revolution","sadness","the-romanovs","tsar-nicholas-ii"],"id":165086,"author_id":"Sarah+Miller"},{"text":"For twenty-five years I've been speaking and writing in defense of your right to happiness in this world, condemning your inability to take what is your due, to secure what you won in bloody battles on the barricades of Paris and Vienna, in the American Civil War, in the Russian Revolution. Your Paris ended with Petain and Laval, your Vienna with Hitler, your Russia with Stalin, and your America may well end in the rule of the Ku Klux Klan! You've been more successful in winning your freedom than in securing it for yourself and others. This I knew long ago. What I did not understand was why time and again, after fighting your way out of a swamp, you sank into a worse one. Then groping and cautiously looking about me, I gradually found out what has enslaved you: YOUR SLAVE DRIVER IS YOU YOURSELF. No one is to blame for your slavery but you yourself. No one else, I say!","author":"Wilhelm Reich","tags":["civil-war","dictatorship","emotional-plague","hitler","laval","liberty","orgone","petain","revolution","russian-revolution","self-deception","stalin","war"],"id":211436,"author_id":"Wilhelm+Reich"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":22,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}