Thread: Lenin: Good or bad?

Originally Posted by heartfelty

I doubt if the Romanovs or the Tsars can industrialize the Soviet Union with hundreds of millions of tractors and harvesters. Buying these tractors from USA would be the natural result if the Tsar were then in power. Whom do you empower but America. Lenin was a Marxist in good faith. All he wanted to was to further the cause without malice aforethought.. I think he was a good man..

I think the entire industrialization project was highly controversial. It came at a price. The other countries which participated in the WWI did fine without the industrialization somehow.