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Russia was a leading world power long before the creation of the USSR. Your "backwater" was: "One of the largest empires in world history, stretching over thre
by robotresearcher 13y ago
Russia was a leading world power long before the creation of the USSR. Your "backwater" was:
"One of the largest empires in world history, stretching over three continents, the Russian Empire was surpassed in landmass only by the British and Mongol empires."
(Wikpedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Empire http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Empire)
- dllthomas 13y agoWhile it's true that Russia was a major world power, the passage you quote only really establishes that it was large, which would be true of a "huge backwater" too.