Famous quotes containing the words history of, history, soviet and/or union:
“Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.”
—G.M. (George Macaulay)
“Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.”
—G.M. (George Macaulay)
“Nothing an interested foreigner may have to say about the Soviet Union today can compare with the scorn and fury of those who inhabit the ruin of a dream.”
—Christopher Hope (b. 1944)
“These semi-traitors [Union generals who were not hostile to slavery] must be watched.—Let us be careful who become army leaders in the reorganized army at the end of this Rebellion. The man who thinks that the perpetuity of slavery is essential to the existence of the Union, is unfit to be trusted. The deadliest enemy the Union has is slavery—in fact, its only enemy.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)