Revolutionaries

Shelley was a young fool; so are these cocksparrow revolutionaries. But it is better to be a fool than to be dead.

Many revolutionaries have been beheaded by the axe of a guillotine.

All revolutionaries live on coffee and potatoes.

Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none.

Many revolutionaries were arrested and sent to Siberia.

Emperor Alexander II was assassinated by terrorist revolutionaries.

Of course, there were dedicated reformers, ardent revolutionaries and hardened nationalists among them, too, and fearful governments tottering on the edge immediately accused them of causing all the trouble and of grasping at impossible theories of government or being manipulated by foreign enemies.

Did the revolutionaries gain enough support?

Did the revolutionaries meet their goals?

Will the revolutionaries achieve freedom?