You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves
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My reading went through a Russian period when I was about 16. Pre-revolutionary authors, dissidents (I read all of Solzhenitsyn), and biographies, several of Stalin. His quote, you cannot make a revolution with silk gloves references Lenin’s earlier quote that you cannot make a revolution with white gloves. In other words you have to get […]