Stalin

[Azi Tohak]

Thanks bmolsson. I agree with you.

And if I could find the source again, I would give it.

I remember reading that the last of the Romanovs was turning Russia from a joke into a powerhouse. Between 1900 and 1914 Russia had a huge industrial turn-around along with massively increasing literacy. If only I could find the source! Romanov Russia was not a backwoods joke of a country ruled by an inept despot at the start of the 20th century.

But then...the Czar stepped in it. WWI has gutted eastern europe to this day. Civil war and then Communism showed up and gutted the country.

Azi

[IliaDN]

Thanks bmolsson. I agree with you.

And if I could find the source again, I would give it.

I remember reading that the last of the Romanovs was turning Russia from a joke into a powerhouse. Between 1900 and 1914 Russia had a huge industrial turn-around along with massively increasing literacy. If only I could find the source! Romanov Russia was not a backwoods joke of a country ruled by an inept despot at the start of the 20th century.

But then...the Czar stepped in it. WWI has gutted eastern europe to this day. Civil war and then Communism showed up and gutted the country.

Azi

You are forgetting about shameful war with Japan in 1905.
About factories and industries:
they were good in western part of country, some central parts, but in general they were not ( for such a big empire )
Communications between regions were awful.