🌊 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 made possible
Later turning points that leaned on the Russian Revolution. Change it in the game and the ripples reach all of these.
- 1936Keynesian economics. Without it, Governments keep treating slumps as bad weather; the idea that the state can manage demand never becomes orthodoxy.
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