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    Lenin instead of Stalin as the Soviet Union’s leadership

    Did anyone continue Stolypin's reforms after his assassination? Interestingly enough, he was assassinated by a Jewish radical/revolutionary. Yeah, I really do think that Tsarist Russia had a lot of potential during the 20th century and that its leadership squandered it by needlessly entering...
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    Lenin instead of Stalin as the Soviet Union’s leadership

    Re: Tsarist Russia: This article is a good read: https://daviskedrosky.substack.com/p/twilight-imperium Tsarist Russia actually wasn't doing all that badly, all things considered.
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    Lenin instead of Stalin as the Soviet Union’s leadership

    You think that academia is too pro-Tsarist? In spite of it being very Jewish?
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    Lenin instead of Stalin as the Soviet Union’s leadership

    The worst pre-Communist Russian famine had less than half a million total deaths: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_famine_of_1891%E2%80%931892 And the number of people whom Tsarist Russia jailed and executed over its last 100 years was also relatively low...
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    Lenin instead of Stalin as the Soviet Union’s leadership

    Tsarist modernization was nowhere near as bloody and brutal as Bolshevik modernization was.
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    Lenin instead of Stalin as the Soviet Union’s leadership

    Yes, hence my cartoon from above: And this one as well:
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    Lenin instead of Stalin as the Soviet Union’s leadership

    Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if Trotsky supported Stalin on this issue and only disagreed with him on some other issues.
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    Lenin instead of Stalin as the Soviet Union’s leadership

    I thought that the 5 Year Plans were implemented because Stalin wanted them to be implemented, not necessarily because the NEP was not working? Though I suppose that if one wanted a quick industrialization and didn't care at all about extremely massive losses of life, well, ...
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    Lenin instead of Stalin as the Soviet Union’s leadership

    Another good cartoon about this topic:
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    Lenin instead of Stalin as the Soviet Union’s leadership

    I thought that the NEP was a success story? It was War Communism that was a huge failure, to my knowledge.
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