russian-revolution

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f39fc94	I'll pretend, I tell myself. Pretending is safer than believing.	war believing tsar-nicholas-ii otma romanovs russian-revolution pretending russia	Sarah Miller
9a89164	I wish I wasn't an imperial highness or an ex-grand duchess. I'm sick of people doing things to me because of what I am. Girl-in-white-dress. Short-one-with-fringe. Daughter-of-the-tsar. Child-of-the-ex-tyrant. I want people to look and see me, Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova, not the caboose on a train of grand duchesses. Someday, I promise myself, no one will be able to hear my name or look at my picture and suppose they know all about me. Someday I will do something bigger than what I am.	life inspirational otma romanovs tsar-nicholas russian-revolution royalty self russia	Sarah Miller
a2a6e2d	"We should be used to it," Tatiana reasons. "There have always been lines separating us from the rest of the world, whether they were satin ribbons or iron rails."	romanovs tsar-nicholas russian-revolution royalty russia	Sarah Miller
ea40677	My sisters and I sit together on a pair of suitcases. If we've forgotten anything, it's already too late -- our rooms have all been sealed and photographed. Anyway, Tatiana would say it's bad luck to return for something you've forgotten.	war exile tsar-nicholas-ii otma romanovs russian-revolution traveling russia	Sarah Miller
72ca8f1	Maria cries unashamedly on my shoulder while I whisper and pet her cheek, but Anastasia grips my other hand and stares fiercely back at our Alexander Palace with her wet blue eyes until it is no more than a lemon-colored speck against the sunrise.	sadness the-romanovs tsar-nicholas-ii otma russian-revolution home russia	Sarah Miller
8297651	It's different now, like pushing the stop lever on my camera until nothing except the war can squeeze through the lens.	war otma romanovs tsar-nicholas russian-revolution russia	Sarah Miller
45b8dd8	Lenin was always prone to overestimate the physical danger to himself: in this respect he was something of a coward.	russian-revolution lenin danger	Orlando Figes
6735b92	Whereas land reform was the first act of the Bolsheviks, it was the last act of the Whites: that, in a peasant country, says it all.	russian-revolution whites	Orlando Figes
dcb425d	Everybody cursed the Bolsheviks but nobody was prepared to do anything about them.	russian-revolution	Orlando Figes
b7f0519	The Provisional Government had lost effective military control of the capital a full two days before the armed uprising began. This was the essential fact of the whole insurrection: without it one cannot explain the ease of the Bolshevik victory.	insurrection russian-revolution	Orlando Figes
f78ac59	The remarkable thing about the Bolshevik insurrection is that hardly any of the Bolshevik leaders had wanted it to happen until a few hours before it began.	insurrection russian-revolution	Orlando Figes
4f143d6	Lenin's Personal life was extraordinarily dull. He dressed and lived like a middle-aged provincial clerk, with precisely fixed hours for meals, sleep, work and leisure. He liked everything to be neat and orderly.	dull provinvial-clerk russian-revolution lenin marxism	Orlando Figes
4284ede	The deeper the Whites moved into the steppe, the more they resorted to terror against a hostile population. Their Ice March left a trail of blood. It was perhaps unavoidable, given the Volunteers' desperate need for food and the reluctance of the peasants to give it to them. The Whites were stranded in a Red peasant sea. But there was also an element of sheer class war and revenge in their violence, as in so many acts of the White Terror, which was a mirror image of the class resentment and hatred that drove the Red Terror. Terror lay at the heart of both regimes.	white-terror russian-revolution	Orlando Figes
a7243a4	Lenin turned to page 2 of the Neue Zurcher Zeitung. There, a short report informed of a revolution in Petrograd. Lenin, too, looked u in thought, his eyes wide.	russian-revolution	China Miéville

I'll pretend, I tell myself. Pretending is safer than believing.

war believing tsar-nicholas-ii otma romanovs russian-revolution pretending russia

Sarah  Miller

9a89164

I wish I wasn't an imperial highness or an ex-grand duchess. I'm sick of people doing things to me because of what I am. Girl-in-white-dress. Short-one-with-fringe. Daughter-of-the-tsar. Child-of-the-ex-tyrant. I want people to look and see me, Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova, not the caboose on a train of grand duchesses. Someday, I promise myself, no one will be able to hear my name or look at my picture and suppose they know all about me. Someday I will do something bigger than what I am.

life inspirational otma romanovs tsar-nicholas russian-revolution royalty self russia

Sarah  Miller

a2a6e2d

"We should be used to it," Tatiana reasons. "There have always been lines separating us from the rest of the world, whether they were satin ribbons or iron rails."

romanovs tsar-nicholas russian-revolution royalty russia

Sarah  Miller

ea40677

My sisters and I sit together on a pair of suitcases. If we've forgotten anything, it's already too late -- our rooms have all been sealed and photographed. Anyway, Tatiana would say it's bad luck to return for something you've forgotten.

war exile tsar-nicholas-ii otma romanovs russian-revolution traveling russia

Sarah  Miller

72ca8f1

Maria cries unashamedly on my shoulder while I whisper and pet her cheek, but Anastasia grips my other hand and stares fiercely back at our Alexander Palace with her wet blue eyes until it is no more than a lemon-colored speck against the sunrise.

sadness the-romanovs tsar-nicholas-ii otma russian-revolution home russia

Sarah  Miller

8297651

It's different now, like pushing the stop lever on my camera until nothing except the war can squeeze through the lens.

war otma romanovs tsar-nicholas russian-revolution russia

Sarah  Miller

45b8dd8

Lenin was always prone to overestimate the physical danger to himself: in this respect he was something of a coward.

russian-revolution lenin danger

Orlando Figes

6735b92

Whereas land reform was the first act of the Bolsheviks, it was the last act of the Whites: that, in a peasant country, says it all.

russian-revolution whites

Orlando Figes

dcb425d

Everybody cursed the Bolsheviks but nobody was prepared to do anything about them.

russian-revolution

Orlando Figes

b7f0519

The Provisional Government had lost effective military control of the capital a full two days before the armed uprising began. This was the essential fact of the whole insurrection: without it one cannot explain the ease of the Bolshevik victory.

insurrection russian-revolution

Orlando Figes

f78ac59

The remarkable thing about the Bolshevik insurrection is that hardly any of the Bolshevik leaders had wanted it to happen until a few hours before it began.

insurrection russian-revolution

Orlando Figes

4f143d6

Lenin's Personal life was extraordinarily dull. He dressed and lived like a middle-aged provincial clerk, with precisely fixed hours for meals, sleep, work and leisure. He liked everything to be neat and orderly.

dull provinvial-clerk russian-revolution lenin marxism

Orlando Figes

4284ede

The deeper the Whites moved into the steppe, the more they resorted to terror against a hostile population. Their Ice March left a trail of blood. It was perhaps unavoidable, given the Volunteers' desperate need for food and the reluctance of the peasants to give it to them. The Whites were stranded in a Red peasant sea. But there was also an element of sheer class war and revenge in their violence, as in so many acts of the White Terror, which was a mirror image of the class resentment and hatred that drove the Red Terror. Terror lay at the heart of both regimes.

white-terror russian-revolution

Orlando Figes

a7243a4

Lenin turned to page 2 of the Neue Zurcher Zeitung. There, a short report informed of a revolution in Petrograd. Lenin, too, looked u in thought, his eyes wide.

russian-revolution

China Miéville