Serge Schmemann
In later years, the communists created a myth around the " Great October Revolution", depicting it as a momentous uprising of peasants and workers against their oppressors. But as I followed it through the stories of those who lived it, the revolution always seemedmore a collapse of the old order than its overthrow, much as the Communist regime subsequently collapsed of exhaustion and bankruptcy rather than because of anything the west did.
Serge Schmemann "Echoes of a Native Land", 1997
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