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130: Russia: From the Great War to Revolution with Deputy Provost Kat Brown

History That Doesn't Suck

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The Failure of Russia to Industrialize

Russia is massive, right? To get a rail line from one end of the empire to the other. We're talking thousands upon thousands of miles. And in a country that does not have a well-developed mining system, smelting system,. It's really, really hard to industrialize something of that size. The Russians couldn't do it because they were an agricultural producer.

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