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No, because I've seen some horrible academic work get published over the years, or should I remind you of the entire anti-vax BS? Or that the entire Lost Cause is a thing?

Can that be validated, mainly because we've had some lousy academia in that department? Just checking because we've had some groups pulling some 1984 shit on Tzarist Russia.

That... isn't entirely the case. You would be surprised at how bloody Russia was during the Tzarist industrialization era, though that kind of ended prematurely with Nicky's predecessor's untimely demise.

You also forget that every time Russia 'modernized', it was on top of a pile of bodies. So it's business as usual.

He was like, 'they're my idea, it's just Stalin implemented them horribly' when he was asked about them. Though, given the aforementioned resistance to modernization... you're still going to be on top of a pile of bodies by the end of it.

Problem, Russia needed to industrialize quickly, or have you forgotten that those five-year plans were Trotsky's idea in the first place? Stalin only implemented them. When Trotsky -Lenin's right-hand man and far closer to Lenin in ideology than Stalin- recognized the need to crash-industrialize...

From my readings... absolutely not, even when filtering for propaganda. Why do you think Stalin was able to implement the 5-year plans? Because the NEP just ended up not working. As I said, Russia has this tendency to only become 'modern' one way and one way only: kicking and screaming.

The thing is Lenin was just pragmatic enough to try to get Russia in its feet using small scale capitalism, that failed miserably. Then again, Russia has this tendency to require it to go into modernity (of the time period) one way and only one way: kicking and screaming.

Not much, the reason that Stalin pushed collectivization as hard as he did was that Lenin's program failed miserably. Not only that but Lenin was in poor health at the time and the only other person with enough clout to take over without Stalin in the picture would be Leon Trotsky aka the Jewish...