How did the Russian Empire stand just prior to World War I? That would be what Lenin (or an alternative to Lenin) would have had to work with.
-- Gordon --------- Certainly not a developed industrial country (though wasn't the largest factory in the world in Moscow?).
I've been intrigued by the socio-economic structure of contemporary Russia, which is markedly similar in a lot of ways to pre-1917, though with the legacy of industrialization. Industrialized feudalism...
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