For one thing, communal ownership of property goes way back in Russia. Agricultural land has been owned by communes for hundreds of years. I actually lived on a collectively-owned "obshina" with a collective farm the first few months I was here. It's not something the Bolshevijs made up.
Chris Doss The Russia Journal ------------------
CB: Not mistaken, but the Russian personality type produced something that was the opposite of anti-Semitism , too: socialist revolution. What do you make of the fact that this Russian personality type was en masse in a population that carried out the main socialist revolution in history ? What in French, English, German, American personality types prevented those masses from having a revolution to join the Russians ?