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minus-squareDylanMc6 [any, any]@lemmy.mlBannedlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down4·2 months 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-up7·2 months 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.mlBannedlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·2 months agomaybe Grigory Zinoviev, perhaps?
minus-squareCowbee [he/they]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-22 months agoWhy the alt-history focus?
minus-squareDylanMc6 [any, any]@lemmy.mlBannedlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·2 months 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-up5·2 months 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.