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    History Revolutions Primary and Historian

    Quotes:
    France:
    Historians:
    [[American War of Independence]]

    - "To French who had Rousseau, America seemed to be a new and enlightened world" -
    Anderson

    - Arthur Young "The American revolution has laid the foundation for another in France"

    [[Remonstrance]]:

    As Historian Doyle states, "they had developed this into a major vehicle of opposition"

    [[Royal Session]]

    - Doyle stated, "No Reply Could have been more catastrophic" and "turned what was
    destined to be a government triumph into a disaster"

    [[Day of Tiles]]

    Schama states, "A significant Breakdown of Royal Authority

    [[Harvest Crisis]]

    - Anderson quote -"The Winters brough the coldest spell in many years"

    [[Necker's Dismissal]]

    - Necker dismissal caused "Largely unobstructed riot" as Schama puts it

    [[Decleration of the right of man and Citizen]]

    - Historian Rude on DORMAC, "Above all a statement of Bourgeoise idealism"

    [[Clerical Oath]]

    - Doyle: "Fractured the revolutionary consensus"

    - Tackett: "Challenged the fundamental basis of community life"

    - Talleyrand: "Perhaps the biggest blunder of the assembly"

    [[Flight to Varenne]]

    Ricket:

    - "By fleeing, the king had renounced his sovereignty"

    Tacket

    - "One of the most poignant moments of the entire revolution"

    [[Champ de mars]]

    Tacket: "Patriot leaders readily violated the very laws they themselves had only just
    proclaimed"

    - As Freedom of press was guaranteed, but they closed Jacobin newspapers following.
    [[Levee]]

    Tackett: Argued that the revolution had

    - "taken away their priests"

    - "Killed their King"

    - "and expected young men to die for the revolution"

    [[Representative on Mission]]

    - Historian Bosher Qoute: "None played a bigger role in terrorizing the nation then the
    representatives on mission"

    [[1793 Constitution]]

    - Historian Andress "Dramatically more radical then that of 1791"

    [[Levee on Masse]]

    - Sutherland: "Young Men tore down liberty tree, beat up constitutional priests and those
    donned with royal cockades"

    [[Constitution of Praimaire Year three]]

    - Historian Mcphee: "A return to the provisions of 91"

    [[Thermidor]]

    - Historian Rude "Tried to revert to the principles of 1789"

    Primary Quotes:
    System of Privilege

    - "The system of Privilege infects everything" Turgot to Necker

    Royal session

    - "That is of no importance to me" - Louis

    In response to Royal session 2 and Louis declared national assembly invalid

    - Louis ordered the deputies to disperse after telling them this, they refused, Bailly stated
    the "assembly could not be given orders"

    Papal Bul Charitas ( April 1791)

    - "We urge you not to abandon your religion"

    Hebert on the Flight:

    "You my King, you are no longer my king"

    Louis stated at his execution:

    - "I die innocent of all the crimes with which I am charged of"
    Government no longer operate under normal conditions:

    - Danton stated, "Let us be terrible so the people will not have to be"

    Danton Called for moderation:

    - Danton stated, "perhaps terror once served a purpose, but it should not hurt innocent
    people"

    Russia:
    Primary and Historian:
    Historian Lilly on the famine crisis:

    - "could have been entirely prevented or at least its impact lessened'

    Trotsky quote of Tsar Nicholas Coronation:

    - "Nicholas II inherited from his ancestors not only a giant empire, but also a
    revolution"

    Historian Figes on bloody-Sunday:

    - "Formed something more like a religious procession then a workers


    demonstration"

    CPSU interpretation on bloody Sunday:

    - "On that day the workers revived a bloody lesson. It was their faith in the Tsar that
    was riddled by bullets"

    Historian Service on 1905 revolution:

    - "the monarchy's fate hung by a thread"

    Historian Wood on the Dumas:

    - "It was a period of uneasy and ambiguous experimentation with quasi-


    constitutional politics"

    Historian Ryan on Nicholas becoming commander and chief

    - "the most disastrous political decision ever made by Tsar Nicholas"

    Trotsky on Lenin's april thesis:

    - "produced the impression of an exploding bomb"

    Historian Wade on the Bolshevik meeting before October revolution


    (Milrevcom):

    - "A declaration of intent to overthrow the government at the most suitable


    opportunity"

    Maxim Gorky on wine riots:


    - "all the dark instincts of the crowd irritated by the lies and filth of politics will flare
    up and fume"

    Trotsky quote relating to wine riots:

    - “there is nothing immoral in the finishing of a class that is already collapsing"

    Historian Litvin on Cheka:

    - "capable of terrifying and terrorising a population"

    Historian service quote on the new decrees:

    - "Designed to inspire and to excite"

    Gorky quote on Dissolution of the constituent assembly:

    - "The people's commissars have given orders to shoot the democracy"

    Lenin quote on the dissolution of the constituent assembly

    - “Only scoundrels and imbeciles think the proletariat must win a majority in
    elections”
    - "the town cannot be equal to the country. the town inevitably leads the country"

    Figes on why the red army had unified purpose:

    - "The reds could claim to be defending the revolution"

    Denikin (white army general on division of his armies:

    - "If i raise the republican flag i loose half my volunteers, and if i raise the
    monarchist flag, I lose the other half.”

    Lenin quote on red terror:

    - "we are eliminating the bourgeoisie as a class"

    Dzerhinksy (head of the cheka) quote on the terror: Dzerzhinsky:

    - 'we stand for organised terror... The Cheka is obliged to defend the revolution'

    Historian Fitzpatrick saw the Kronstadt revolt as

    - 'a symbolic parting of ways between the working class and the Bolshevik party'

    Green Army opposition at the end of the civil war: Historian Pipes, calls this
    evidence for Lenin’s,

    - ''utter disregard for human life”

    Historian Mcauly argues

    - 'If war communism was a leap into socialism, then the NEP was a leap out.'

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