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rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

Maybe they were on a better trajectory, idk.

They were. Russia between 1905 and 1914 was developing faster than at any point under Bolsheviks.

I haven’t studied it extensively, so I could be very mistaken, but it seems like a case of rose colored glasses.

Not entirely, one can call NEP sort of a continuation of those few years.

I guess I struggle to see pre-socialist Russia as better than modern Russia, unless we’re merely looking at trajectory.

In quality, not in quantity. Most people were illiterate and rural, but those who were literate had better quality of that literacy, so to say. Among those capable of touching power it was more decentralized, however strange that would seem. Quality of those people was better too, it wasn’t an organized mafia group. They had professors in the parliament and they didn’t have thieves there.

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