Writing should be testimony to the vast flow of life through us..

What with the political monopoly, the Cheka and the Red Army, all that now existed of the 'Commune-State' of our dreams was a theoretical myth. The w….

...and it is a serious matter to destroy a man's faith without replacing it..

I believe that the formation of the Chekas was one of the gravest and most impermissible errors that the Bolshevik leaders committed in 1918 when plo….

He who speaks, he who writes is above all one who speaks on behalf of all those who have no voice..

Early on, I learnt from the Russian intelligentsia that the only meaning of life lies in conscious participation in the making of history. The more I….

It is often said that ‘the germ of all Stalinism was in Bolshevism at its beginning’. Well, I have no objection. Only, Bolshevism also contained many….

Carelessness on the part of revolutionaries has always been the best aid the police have..

I followed his argument with the blank uneasiness which one might feel in the presence of a logical lunatic..

What is terrible when you seek the truth is that you find it..

What is terrible when you seek the truth, is that you find it. You find it, and then you are no longer free to follow the biases of your personal cir….