Russia Unit 4 AOS 1 QUOTES

Trotsky explaining the lives of peasants

"icons and cockroaches"

Waldron about the tsarist economy and its problems

"The tsarist economy was honeycombed with fundamental structural problems"

Figes on the living conditions of Russian industrial workers

"bed bugs and fleas and the stench of "humanity""

Figes on the comparison of the industrial living conditions

could be compared to "dwellings of prehistoric people"

Trotsky about the Fundamental Laws

"We have been given a constitution, yet the autocracy remains"

quote about the soldiers exhausted

"The soldiers are without a doubt exhausted by the continued defeats and retreats"

French Ambassador to Russia, Maurice Paleologue

"I am obliged to report that, at the present moment, The Russian Empire is run by lunatics"

an officer about the human cost of war

"This is not war, sir, it is slaughter"

International Womens day march

"Women's voice were heard in the alley... shouting: Down with the war! Down with the high cost of living! Down with hunger! Bread for the workers!"

Pipes quote about the rapidity of the Feb revolution

"The most striking aspect of the February Revolution was the extraordinary rapidity with which the Russian state fell apart" (Pipes)

W.H Chamberlain quote about the chaos of the Feb revolution

"The most leaderless, spontaneous, anonymous revolution of all time" W.H Chamberlain

Service quote about Nicholas being out of joint

"Nicholas was out of joint with his times"