Dr. Warren Carroll Lectures

“Why are Chambers and the man he exposed, Alger Hiss, so important? Because at that moment in American history, in the 1950’s, when we first engaged communism in a shooting war in Korea, he revealed that communism was our supreme enemy and showed us why. He was able to do this because he had been a Communist secret agent himself.”

“We are the real revolutionaries–yes, we are going to tear the whole thing down! We shall destroy and smash everything, with the result that everything will be smashed to smithereens and fly off in all directions, and nothing will remain standing!

“Yes, we are going to destroy everything, and on the ruins we will build our temple! It will be a temple for the happiness of all! But we shall destroy the entire bourgeoisie, and grind them to powder! Remember that!”

“In Russia the end of the First World War in 1918 had created an opportunity for intervention by the Western powers against the Communists and in favor of the Whites. Winston Churchill, the history-maker, then holding office in Lloyd George’s government of Great Britain, could see that opportunity clearly, along with all the terrible consequences of not taking it.

“He told Lloyd George that ‘the Bolsheviks are the enemy of the human race and must be put down at any cost . . . we might as well legalize sodomy as recognize the Bolsheviks.’ But in both Britain and France, the people and especially the war veterans were unutterably weary of war and saw no reason to get involved in Russia’s troubles. It soon became obvious that, except for a few hard-bitten professionals, no British or French troops could be used effectively in Russia.”

“Today we will describe the ultimate revolution in Russia, personally directed by Lenin the revolution-maker. By the Russian calendar, this one happened in October, or in November by our Gregorian calendar.

“Lenin’s revolution transformed the history of the twentieth century. After a farewell lunch in Zurich, Lenin set out with his party on the most important train trip in the history of the world. Lenin was never to see Switzerland again. Russia and the world were now his stage.”

Dr. Carroll speaks on communism and its devastating effects. His knowledge of Vladimir, Lenin, Bolshevism, Rasputin, and Stalin becomes clear as he expounds upon their influence as the instigators and supporters of the “most evil rule in history.”  Dr. Carroll explains the first part of the Russian Revolution through major characters, events, and the mindsets of the Russian people.

“For more than eight hundred years a shadow has lain across Russia and China – the shadow of Genghis Khan the Mongol conquer, who rode out of the steppes of central Asia with his ‘devil’s horsemen’ to fasten a yoke of tyranny on the neck of the of the Russian and Chinese people. Russia remained under that yoke for more than two centuries, and China suffers under it today. When Russia became the victim of Communist tyranny and threatened for most of the twentieth century to conquer the whole world, the heritage of Genghis Khan was realized in it.

“Genghis Khan was one of the most evil men who ever lived, a fit forerunner to Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin. He said that the greatest pleasure in life was to see one’s enemies humbled in the dust.”

“Alexander was the son of King Philip of Macedon, a great warrior and conqueror, and Philip’s proud, mystical and passionate Queen Olympias, whom Alexander deeply loved. As a young man Alexander patterned himself after the heroes of Homer and swore to conquer Persia, the ancient enemy of the Greeks and the greatest empire of the ancient world before Rome . . . . Alexander’s conquest united the world of the Middle East with the classical world of Greece and Rome, for the only time in history.”

“Her contemporaries uniformly and repeatedly testified to her extraordinary virtues, as have most historians since, Catholic or secular. Even those who vehemently disagree with some of her policies (such as her establishment of the Spanish Inquisition) cannot deny her spotless moral integrity, the harmony of her life with her faith, and the justice and benevolence of most of her rule.”

“So pervasive has the myth about Senator McCarthy become that I have had students from my alma mater college in Maine telephone me to interview me, as a man old enough to remember McCarthy’s day, to ask what it was like and to say how terrible it must have been to have lived in his time. They were astonished when I told them that everything was perfectly normal then and just like today.”

“It was three-quarters of an hour past midnight, August 10, 1792, when the bells of Paris began to ring. They were church bells, whose primary purpose was to call the faithful to worship, but now the churches were empty and dark, and only the bells sounded. At first some of them tolled slowly, but others quickened the pace – ringing and rising, ringing and rising, until it was an almost continuous ear-splitting ding-ding ding-ding, and this was the tocsin, the city alarm, the call to arms, which it was a capital offense to sound without orders from the government.”

“The story of Prince Charles Edward Stuart and his attempt to regain the British throne of his fathers is one of the great romances of history – and it all actually happened. The Stuart kings were the rightful rulers of England. The last of them, James II, became Catholic and therefore was hounded out of Great Britain in a carnival of treason that would have shamed a banana republic. His own daughter and his best general would both betray him.”

On February 26 at Christendom College, Founding President Dr. Warren Carroll delivered a lecture titled “The Protestant Revolt, Not a Reformation.” The lecture was the second in a series of history lectures that are planned over the next few months.

The lecture was charged with intrepid statements on this turbulent period of Church History.

“Though most Protestants today do not know it, the destruction of the Catholic Church was the declared objective of the first Protestants,’” Carroll said at the beginning of his lecture. “They were rebels, not reformers.”

A convert to Christianity, Carroll was educated at Bates College and received a Doctorate of History from Columbia University. After founding Christendom College, he served as the College’s president until 1985 and then as the chairman of its History Department until his retirement in 2002. He is the author of numerous historical works, including The Rise and Fall of the Communist Revolution and his major multi-volume work The History of Christendom.