Would Russia still be shit today if the revolutions hadn't succeeded?
>>1396153
If there were no revolutions and Russia still had a Czar, then yes.
If there were no revolutions but Russia eventually became a democracy, then maybe
If russia had the one democratic socialist revolution, and only that one, then probably no.
Yes.
Yes, it is a Russia after all.
>>1396153
You could argue it might even be worse - when Stalin came into power. Russia was still easily 100 years behind the other Western powers in terms of industrial development.