All Russia, even then, was seething, and I was trying to understand.

I never did.
No one ever understood Russia.

The explanation of all that has happened there is simply the eternal duplication of history--a huge class of people, physically omnipotent, conscious of wrongs, unintelligent, and led by false prophets.

All revolutions are the same.

The purging is too severe, so the good remains undone." There followed a silence, purposeful on her port, scarcely realised by him.