Quote Originally Posted by Crandar View Post
If that's how you interpret the term of industrialisation, then Russia, with her mass production of weapons, was already completely industrialised, long before the revolution.
But that's a weird way of defining industrialisation, we usually prefer the importance of industry in relation with the rest of financial activities.
Well, there's "Industrialisation" where you have moved from a craft economy to mass-production and there's the Urbanisation that comes along with it. In the UK Urbanisation really kicks in between the World Wars but by that point a lot of what we used in day-to-day life was mass-produced.

By the overthrow of Tsar Nicholas II Russia already had significant industrial capacity but many things were still made by hand.

The Soviets moved everything to pass production, with often disastrous results. The Destruction of the Ural Sea being the most obvious example - the lack of a Liberal Elite means a lack of sentiment.