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Orlando Figes quotes: The peasant also found another use for this sacred object. 'He says of the icon: "It's good for praying -- and you can cover the pots with it too.

The peasant also found another use for this sacred object. 'He says of the icon: "It's good for praying -- and you can cover the pots with it too.

Orlando Figes quotes: Valley of the Shadow of Death (1855)

Valley of the Shadow of Death (1855)

Orlando Figes quotes: Lenin was always prone to overestimate the physical danger to himself: in this respect he was something of a coward.

Lenin was always prone to overestimate the physical danger to himself: in this respect he was something of a coward.

Orlando Figes quotes: Everybody cursed the Bolsheviks but nobody was prepared to do anything about them.

Everybody cursed the Bolsheviks but nobody was prepared to do anything about them.

Orlando Figes quotes: It was not Marxism that made Lenin a revolutionary but Lenin who made Marxism revolutionary.

It was not Marxism that made Lenin a revolutionary but Lenin who made Marxism revolutionary.

Orlando Figes quotes: Whereas land reform was the first act of the Bolsheviks, it was the last act of the Whites: that, in a peasant country, says it all.

Whereas land reform was the first act of the Bolsheviks, it was the last act of the Whites: that, in a peasant country, says it all.

Orlando Figes quotes: For the Romanov regime fell under the weight of its own internal contradictions. It was not overthrown.

For the Romanov regime fell under the weight of its own internal contradictions. It was not overthrown.

Orlando Figes quotes: The word 'soviet' means 'council' in Russian (there was nothing particularly Communist about it until after 1917).

The word 'soviet' means 'council' in Russian (there was nothing particularly Communist about it until after 1917).