October Revolution quotes

October Revolution

8 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

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Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky Revolutionary, Politician

"No one revolution up to now has brought all that was expected of it by the masses. Hence the inevitability of a certain disillusionment, of a lowering of the activity of the vanguard, and consequently, of the growing importance of the rearguard. [Joseph] Stalin's faction has raised itself on the wave of reaction against the October revolution."

Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong Politician, Revolutionary

"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."

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