Top Insurrection Quotes

The remarkable thing about the Bolshevik insurrection is that hardly any of the Bolshevik leaders had wanted it to happen until a few hours before it began.

The Provisional Government had lost effective military control of the capital a full two days before the armed uprising began. This was the essential fact of the whole insurrection: without it one can...

Insurrection Definition

(n.) A rising against civil or political authority, or the established government; open and active opposition to the execution of law in a city or state.

(n.) A rising in mass to oppose an enemy.