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Top 10 Orlando Figes Quotes (2025 Update)

Orlando Figes Quote: “It was ironic but somehow fitting that the 1905 Revolution should have been started by an organisation dreamed up by the tsarist regime itself. No-one believed more than Father Gapon in the bond between Tsar and people.”

1. “It was ironic but somehow fitting that the 1905 Revolution should have been started by an organisation dreamed up by the tsarist regime itself. No-one believed more than Father Gapon in the bond between Tsar and people.”

— Orlando Figes

Orlando Figes Quote: “The only way, they argued, to prevent a revolution was to rule Russia with an iron hand. This meant defending the autocratic principle, the unchecked powers of the police, the hegemony of the nobility, and the moral domination of the Church, against the liberal and secular challenges of the urban-industrialize order.”

2. “The only way, they argued, to prevent a revolution was to rule Russia with an iron hand. This meant defending the autocratic principle, the unchecked powers of the police, the hegemony of the nobility, and the moral domination of the Church, against the liberal and secular challenges of the urban-industrialize order.”

— Orlando Figes

Orlando Figes Quote: “It was not Marxism that made Lenin a revolutionary but Lenin who made Marxism revolutionary.”

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

— Orlando Figes

Orlando Figes Quote: “The Provisional Government had lost effective military control of the capital a full two days before the armed uprising began. This was the essential fact of the whole insurrection: without it one cannot explain the ease of the Bolshevik victory.”

4. “The Provisional Government had lost effective military control of the capital a full two days before the armed uprising began. This was the essential fact of the whole insurrection: without it one cannot explain the ease of the Bolshevik victory.”

— Orlando Figes

Orlando Figes Quote: “There is no sadder symbol of the crippling poverty in which millions of peasants were forced to live than the image of a peasant and his son struggling to drag a plough through the mud.”

5. “There is no sadder symbol of the crippling poverty in which millions of peasants were forced to live than the image of a peasant and his son struggling to drag a plough through the mud.”

— Orlando Figes

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

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

— Orlando Figes

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

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

— Orlando Figes

Orlando Figes Quote: “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.”

8. “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

Orlando Figes Quote: “The remarkable thing about the Bolshevik insurrection is that hardly any of the Bolshevik leaders had wanted it to happen until a few hours before it began.”

9. “The remarkable thing about the Bolshevik insurrection is that hardly any of the Bolshevik leaders had wanted it to happen until a few hours before it began.”

— Orlando Figes

Orlando Figes Quote: “Convinced that their own ideas were the key to the future of the world, that the fate of humanity rested on the outcome of their own doctrinal struggles, the Russian intelligentsia divided up the world into the forces of ‘progress’ and ‘reaction’, friends and enemies of the people’s cause, leaving no room for doubters in between. Here were the origins of the totalitarian world-view. Although neither would have liked to admit it, there was much in common between Lenin and Tolstoy.”

10. “Convinced that their own ideas were the key to the future of the world, that the fate of humanity rested on the outcome of their own doctrinal struggles, the Russian intelligentsia divided up the world into the forces of ‘progress’ and ‘reaction’, friends and enemies of the people’s cause, leaving no room for doubters in between. Here were the origins of the totalitarian world-view. Although neither would have liked to admit it, there was much in common between Lenin and Tolstoy.”

— Orlando Figes

Orlando Figes Quote: “There was much that was endearing in this strangely Russian search for absolutes – such as the passion for big ideas that gave the literature of nineteenth-century Russia its unique character and power – and yet the underside of this idealism was a badgering didacticism, a moral dogmatism and intolerance, which in its own way was just as harmful as the censorship it opposed.”

11. “There was much that was endearing in this strangely Russian search for absolutes – such as the passion for big ideas that gave the literature of nineteenth-century Russia its unique character and power – and yet the underside of this idealism was a badgering didacticism, a moral dogmatism and intolerance, which in its own way was just as harmful as the censorship it opposed.”

— Orlando Figes

Orlando Figes Quote: “Lenin’s Personal life was extraordinarily dull. He dressed and lived like a middle-aged provincial clerk, with precisely fixed hours for meals, sleep, work and leisure. He liked everything to be neat and orderly.”

12. “Lenin’s Personal life was extraordinarily dull. He dressed and lived like a middle-aged provincial clerk, with precisely fixed hours for meals, sleep, work and leisure. He liked everything to be neat and orderly.”

— Orlando Figes

Orlando Figes Quote: “Their notion of training was to march the men up and down in parades and reviews: these were nice to look at and gave them the impression of military discipline and precision, but as a preparation for a modern war they had no value whatsoever.”

13. “Their notion of training was to march the men up and down in parades and reviews: these were nice to look at and gave them the impression of military discipline and precision, but as a preparation for a modern war they had no value whatsoever.”

— Orlando Figes

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