russia aos 1 quotes

Mikhail Rodzianko on Rasputin in govt.?

'Marks the beginning of the decay of Russian society and the loss of prestige for the throne...and for the Tsar himself!'

Alan Wood on 1905?

'The whole of Russian society were roused to fury'

April theses?

No support for the provisional government!

Father Gapon in the Bloody Sunday petition?

'We are impoverished and oppressed...we are treated as slaves'

Figes quote on the Petrograd Mutiny (feb rev)?

'The mutiny of the Petrograd garrison turned the disorders of the last 4 days into a full scale revolution'

Head of the Soviets on the October Manifesto?

'[It is] a fraud on the people, a trick of the tsar'

History of the CPSU quote on the April Theses?

‘Lenin's April Theses laid down for the Party a brilliant plan of struggle for the transition from the bourgeois-democratic to the Socialist revolution’

Kerensky quote about dual authority?

'The Petrograd Soviet have power without authority, the Provisional Government have authority without power'

Kerensky quote on what the PG inherited?

‘The PG inherited nothing from the autocracy but a terrible war, acute food shortage... population in a state of furious discontent’

Key point 1 from the fundamental laws?

'The russian state is one and indivisible'

Key point 10 from the fundamental laws?

'Total administrative power belongs to the Sovereign emperor'

Key point 4 from the fundamental laws?

'Emperor has sovereign power...ordained by God'

Key point 9 from the fundamental laws?

'Sovereign emperor ratifies law'

Lenin on seizing power for the Soviets?

'If we seize power today, we seize it not in opposition to the Soviets but on their behalf'

Lenin on taking power in the october rev?

'History will not forgive us if we do not take power'

Malone quote on Lenin's return?

'Lenin's return was the most significant turning point in this period of dual authority'

Maurice Paleologue (French Ambassador) on Rasputin?

'The Russian Empire is run by lunatics'

October Manifesto --- 1? (freedom of speech)

'Fundamental civil freedoms will be granted to the population, including…freedom of … speech'

October Manifesto --- 2? (dumas)

‘Participation in the Duma will be granted to those classes of the population which are at present deprived of voting powers’

October Manifesto --- 3? (duma approval)

'No law can come into force without its approval by the State Duma'

Pipes on the October rev psychologically?

'accomplished 9/10 psychologically...victory came almost without a shot being fired'

Pipes quote on dual authority and the Soviets?

‘the soviets subverted the authority of the administration without assuming responsibility for the consequences’

Rex Wade on who the Bolsheviks became an alternative for?

“[The Bolsheviks] became the political alternative for the disappointed and disenchanted.”

Smith quote on cause of the feb rev?

‘When the February Revolution came, it was not the result of military defeat or even war-weariness but due to the collapse of public support in the government'

Soviet Order No. 1?

'[soldiers and sailors must obey the PG] only in such cases as they do not conflict with the orders and resolutions of the Soviet'

Stolypin quote?

'Suppression first, and then, and only then, reform'

Trotsky on the ministers from other parties who left the all-russian congress of soviets meeting?

‘go back where you ought to go: into the dustbin of history!”

Trotsky on Tsarism surviving 1905?

'Although with a few broken ribs, Tsarism came out of the experience of 1905 alive and well'

Tsar on October Manifesto?

'It's the only way out'

Tsar on the dumas + fundamental laws?

'I created the duma, not to be directed by it, but to be advised'

Tsar's abdication speech?

'it is for the good of the country that we should abdicate the Crown'

Lenin on state capitalism?

‘State monopoly capitalism inevitably and unavoidably implies a step or several steps towards socialism. Socialism is nothing but state-capitalism monopoly’

Figes on the July Days?

‘The events of 4 July were characterised by almost total confusion. The Bolshevik leaders were making it up as they went along’

Kerensky on the Bolsheviks arrested in the July Days?

‘Let those who betray the country in its days of trial be damned’

Grigory Zinoviev on the July Days?

'These were dark, difficult days'