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Well if you look at their actions, they were anti-worker, they had to recapture the factories from the soviets (worker councils) and reinstate managerial contro

Well if you look at their actions, they were anti-worker, they had to recapture the factories from the soviets (worker councils) and reinstate managerial control. This meant fighting the most dedicated revolutionaries and socialists, a real tragedy IMO. in 1917 the country was 90% illiterate. It was also mostly foreign-owned, kind of like a 3rd world country.

nickik 6y ago
You can't just declare those you liked as the 'most dedicated'. They put workers in control of those factories, and only because of that did they have any chance at to win the Civil war and making Soviet Union as such possible. So who is really the 'most dedicated'. > in 1917 the country was 90% illiterate. It was also mostly foreign-owned, kind of like a 3rd world country. The point is not that Imperial Russia is some kind of paradise, but that there is not fundamental break between Imperial and Soviet, no matter how much propaganda wants to 'start history' in 1917. The land was the most productive asset in the country, and that was not foreign-owned. In fact it was mostly owned by the peasantry themselves.