Or rather

Somewhere in ‘17

well it didnt really kick off until 1918

Revolution happened in 17

yeah

Like I said

in less than 15 years stalin basically completly industrialized the USSR

like 2 and a half 5 year plans

Yes

Thats VERY fast

Wouldn’t call that a shithole

Just in time for roll out the T-34s

Russia before ww1 was bad.

btw by 1914 40% of russian workers were employed in industry, which practically didnt exist (except for a few factories) before the 1880s

it was booming economically but still behind

mainly due to two great ministerw

sergei witte and pyotr stolipyn

Over the summer I read a lot of what Stalin wrote, especially regarding the Kulaks, etc

A booming economy yet the people wanted to overthrow the tzar. Makes sense

Kulaks deserved worse

Easy to see how he was popular, at least among certain people

@Unity.Nat because the tsar was unpopular, weak willed, and lost wars

and autocratic

plus the economy boombed, the peoples wages didnt icnrease

and they remained poor

which his own inner circle hated as well

iirc

2 and 2 don't add up. Many leaders were unpopular. However I doubt that is the main cause

It really is

that is

Definitely

poor war preforma ce helped a lot too

plus the humilation in the russo japanese war

oh and because of huge repression for centuries

being a moron helps too

yes

GG @S_Kuzi, you just advanced to level 5!

the Jewish Pograms

plus the fact taht the last tsar was basically an autocrat but very popular, good at diplomacy and most importantly for being an autocrat

not weak willed

Ehm