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[Sridhar Ayengar]

Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> I'm not sure at any time they were communist either.
> 
> Communism in Russia existed before the revolution in the villages, where 
> it mostly worked, and afterward what they had was not the same, no 
> matter what governments and historians call it.
> 
> Maybe you could call it what happens when communism tries to go big, but 
> I have never thought of them as communist.
> 
> It seemed to be a socialist system run by an elite and violent aristocracy.
> 
> Whatever you call it, it was a monumental failure that makes a lot of 
> other crappy governments look good by comparison.

I don't even think it was particularly socialist.  I see it as monarchy 
being replaced by oligarchy.  The tsar was replaced by the apparatchiks.

Peace...  Sridhar