It did, do you think it went from a rural imperial backwater to... A second-rate industrialized economy in the span of a generation by accident? (Despite being

It did, do you think it went from a rural imperial backwater to... A second-rate industrialized economy in the span of a generation by accident? (Despite being ravaged by five years of civil war, and then four years of a world war.) A lot of awful things were done in that time period (and the one that followed), but you have to be blind to not call much of it nation-building.