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minus-squareDylanMc6 [any, any]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down4·9 hours agowhat about bukharin? if he takes over instead of stalin and his ideas were implemented, what would the ussr be like? the ussr be better off?
minus-squareCowbee [he/they]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up6·9 hours agoNo. Bukharin was both a Mechanist and a right-opportunist that rejected collectivization, and ultimately stood against the USSR. I think it’s better for you to confront the ghost of Stalin than focus on what the USSR may have been had someone else been elected.
minus-squareDylanMc6 [any, any]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 hours agomaybe Grigory Zinoviev, perhaps?
minus-squareCowbee [he/they]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-25 hours agoWhy the alt-history focus?
minus-squareDylanMc6 [any, any]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 hours agoi’m just asking what would the ussr would be like if someone other than stalin (or trotsky) led the country after lenin (like zinoviev)
minus-squareCowbee [he/they]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·5 hours agoI think a better basis is instead looking at why the soviets did what they did in the first place before asking what might have been different otherwise.
what about bukharin? if he takes over instead of stalin and his ideas were implemented, what would the ussr be like? the ussr be better off?
No. Bukharin was both a Mechanist and a right-opportunist that rejected collectivization, and ultimately stood against the USSR.
I think it’s better for you to confront the ghost of Stalin than focus on what the USSR may have been had someone else been elected.
maybe Grigory Zinoviev, perhaps?
Why the alt-history focus?
i’m just asking what would the ussr would be like if someone other than stalin (or trotsky) led the country after lenin (like zinoviev)
I think a better basis is instead looking at why the soviets did what they did in the first place before asking what might have been different otherwise.