Russian Historian Quotes

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Michael Rostovtzeff

Victor Serge

Viktor Suvorov

Vasily Klyuchevsky

All classifications in this world lack sharp boundaries, and all transitions are gradual.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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

The only thing I can be proud of—the greatest merit of my life—is that I was able to fundamentally alter my views."

Dmitri Volkogonov

The Communists claim that they liberated the Russian people. Yet, when the Great Patriotic War began, these same Russians greeted their foreign invaders with tears, with flowers and with enthusiastic hospitality. What can have brought them to the point at which they would greet even Hitler as their saviour and liberator?

For long, history was mainly political history, and historical narrative was confined to an account of the most important crises in political life, or to an account of wars and great generals.

Michael Rostovtzeff

Science is often identified with knowledge. This is a gross misunderstanding. Science is not merely knowledge, but also consciousness, that is, the skill of properly using knowledge.

Vasily Klyuchevsky

Freedom is not an essential and basic condition for the growth of science; the care and diligence of government authorities are the most important conditions for this development.

Vasily Tatishchev