"Ten Days that Shook the World" Quotes
A firsthand account of the October Revolution in Russia by journalist John Reed.
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Quotes
The masses are not always right, but always wrong.
The difference between a revolution and a successful revolution is enormous.
The land was being taken by the peasants, and the factories by the workers.
A new world is being born: a world of the workers, soldiers and peasants.
The discipline of the Red Guard is wonderful.
The factory committees are the genuine representatives of the workers.
In the workers’ districts, the people are living in the streets.
The Tsar’s regime was not a regime, but a chaotic mass of contradictions.
The bourgeoisie is more frightened than the workers.
The Revolution, which was in the minds and hearts of the people, began to take form.
