It is surely indisputable that no single leader in the twentieth century exerted as great an influence on the course of world history as Lenin.

- Dmitri Volkogonov

We rarely know who our ancestors were. Who can even remember the names of their great-grandparents? They have vanished into the dim and distant past

- Dmitri Volkogonov

Dogmatism grew from the soil of simplistic and frequently wrong concepts. Dogmatism is like a ship that has run aground: the waves run, the ship stay…

- Dmitri Volkogonov

The man who occupies the first place in an undemocratic state can give himself any award that takes his fancy, but it does not increase his authority…

- Dmitri Volkogonov

All revolutions are bloody. The October Revolution was bloodless, but it was only the beginning

- Dmitri Volkogonov