11.1 Why the Russian Revolution Failed: When Rich Kids do all the Socialism
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The Land Shortage and Overpopulation Crisis in Russia After Emancipation
For the vast majority of ethnically Russian peasants, there was an extreme and increasingly worse land shortage and overpopulation crisis. Ironically, this land shortage was made worse by the end of serfdom in 1861. As a result of this new debt serfdom, each administrative region had a small number of money lenders and merchants who took advantage of the peasants' desperation to exploit them even further. And their number one desire was to take their land back from the parasite aristocratic landlords and also from the church and to redistribute it equally amongst themselves. So they were just perfect material for some kind of revolutionary socialism.
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