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[โ€“] mycorrhiza@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most early Bolshevik policies were more situational than ideological. The main priorities were to repel threats and industrialize as quickly as possible. They expected to be crushed by industrialized capitalist powers unless they reached parity.

[โ€“] jackoid@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

And to refute OP again, the Maoist Revolution lead to a near equal redistribution of land among the peasantry.