 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
An extraordinary contrast to both these men (Lenin and Trotsky) was Gorky, with whom I had a brief interview in Petrograd. He was in bed, apparently very ill and obviously heart-broken. He begged me, in anything I might say about Russia, always to emphasize what Russia has suffered. ... I felt him the most lovable, and to me the most sympathetic, of all the Russians I saw. I wished for more knowledge of his outlook, but he spoke with difficulty and was constantly interrupted by terrible fits of coughing, so that I could not stay.
Source: Bertrand Russell：The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism, 1920, chapter 3: Lenin, Trotsky and Gorky