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<blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 5218924" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>No, families brutally rose to the top and preserved their status through both setting themselves up as better than others and oppressing anyone who questioned that order. What ultimately changed things for the better for the common man was the industrial revolution and the rise of the middle class. Russia was slow to develop that way and as late as the early 1900's serfdom was still very much an institution there. That's most of the population living in dire poverty while the aristocracy enjoyed the fat of the land and their military enforcing that. A perfect storm for allowing smooth talkers like Lenin to convince the poor that Marxism would give them a much better life if they overthrew their aristocratic masters.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vantexan, post: 5218924, member: 24302"] No, families brutally rose to the top and preserved their status through both setting themselves up as better than others and oppressing anyone who questioned that order. What ultimately changed things for the better for the common man was the industrial revolution and the rise of the middle class. Russia was slow to develop that way and as late as the early 1900's serfdom was still very much an institution there. That's most of the population living in dire poverty while the aristocracy enjoyed the fat of the land and their military enforcing that. A perfect storm for allowing smooth talkers like Lenin to convince the poor that Marxism would give them a much better life if they overthrew their aristocratic masters. [/QUOTE]
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