Soviet Revolution

Famous quotes containing the words soviet and/or revolution:

“The tremendous outflow of intellectuals that formed such a prominent part of the general exodus from Soviet Russia in the first years of the Bolshevist Revolution seems today like the wanderings of some mythical tribe whose bird-signs and moon-signs I now retrieve from the desert dust.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

“We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.”
—Georg Büchner (1813–1837)