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<blockquote data-quote="dragoner" data-source="post: 9633185" data-attributes="member: 6943731"><p>Trotsky criticized it for developing a &quot;ruling caste.&quot; However, the census of 1923 after the civil war, found that the country was 80% illiterate peasants, to which Lenin remarked, &quot;half of those without a horse.&quot; The Civil War being so bad that Petrograd/St Petersburg, a city of bricks, had lost the ability to make bricks, it took years to reinvent the industry. It serves as a warning from history, have a revolution to get rid of a Czar, and get Koba the prison gangster boss instead - a Stalin. The irony then is he filled the gulag with the Bolsheviks themselves, all that was left were the Czarist traditions. Nevertheless, without the crash industrialization, the Russians would have been exterminated by the Germans. Rand definitely buys into the &quot;Great Man&quot; theory; which is disputable, and rather unsavory after WW2. I think she knew it too, and was rather lost, an addiction to amphetamines probably didn't help that.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="dragoner, post: 9633185, member: 6943731"] Trotsky criticized it for developing a "ruling caste." However, the census of 1923 after the civil war, found that the country was 80% illiterate peasants, to which Lenin remarked, "half of those without a horse." The Civil War being so bad that Petrograd/St Petersburg, a city of bricks, had lost the ability to make bricks, it took years to reinvent the industry. It serves as a warning from history, have a revolution to get rid of a Czar, and get Koba the prison gangster boss instead - a Stalin. The irony then is he filled the gulag with the Bolsheviks themselves, all that was left were the Czarist traditions. Nevertheless, without the crash industrialization, the Russians would have been exterminated by the Germans. Rand definitely buys into the "Great Man" theory; which is disputable, and rather unsavory after WW2. I think she knew it too, and was rather lost, an addiction to amphetamines probably didn't help that. [/QUOTE]

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