Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote: In other words, socialist revolution evolved into something more consistent with the culture and worldview of the majority of the population.
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It would be more accurate to say that the Bolshevik revolution, though impossible without the peasantry lacked the peasantry's long-term support, and therefore produced counterrevolution, the hallmark of which became Stalinism. Counterrevolution in Russia meant a backslide into a wholesale state-monopoly capitalist system (though this arguably started under Lenin, around when Fannie shot him), as well as further backslide into political dictatorship. It was counterrevolution which led to the wholesale slaughter and downright genocide of peasants under Stalin; I don't think we'd argue that peasant genocide was consistent with the worldview of the peasant majority in Russia.
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