“The cultural atmosphere of Russia in those years had an adolescent quality, common to all periods of revolution: the belief that life is just beginning, that the future is unlimited, and that mankind is no longer bound by the shackles of history.”

—  Leszek Kolakowski

pg. 47
Main Currents Of Marxism (1978), Three Volume edition, Volume III: The Breakdown

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