🌊 Ripple · counterfactual
What if the Russian Revolution had gone differently?
1917 · russia
The Tsarist state collapses and the Bolsheviks build the first avowedly communist state.
If it had gone differently: The Russian monarchy reforms or muddles through; the century-long contest between communism and capitalism never begins.
What it set up
- 1936Keynesian economics, Governments keep treating slumps as bad weather; the idea that the state can manage demand never becomes orthodoxy.
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