by Charles Brown
13 August 2004 17:09 UTC
by Chris Doss
Mainly that was me writing off the cuff while trying to meet a deadline and working through a hangover. It wiould be better to say something like "the shape of Soviet society was determined first and foremost by the need to develop an agrarian country. It succeeded. The rest of teh stuff is fluff." ^^^^^^ CB: Why was there a need to develop the agrarian country ? People had been surviving in agrarian societies for millenia.I'm without notes but roughly, as comrade Stalin correctly stated in 1931, we have 10 years in which to catch up or we will be defeated again.In support of Chris' point, I don't recall this statement as having anything to do with building socialism as such.
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