Erin ’s Reviews > Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921 > Status Update

During the 1812 Patriotic War against Napoleon, the Don Cossacks alone provided 26 regiments of calvary amounting to nearly 50,000 sabres.

The Bolsheviks were numerically miniscule beside the Socialist Revolutionaries.

Any suggestion that Lenin living the life of an impoverished exile in a squalid room in Spiegelstrasse in Zurich might soon become the absolute ruler of Russia would have seemed a fantasy.

"Our generation is doomed. All that is left to us is exile or death."

You should not interrupt your opponent when he is making a mistake.

Lenin scorned half measures as much as he abhorred compromise.

The Black Hundreds were the reactionary monarchist, nationalistic and anti Semitic groups supported by Nicholas II