Would Russia have been a better place if the Russian Revolution never took place?

Question

And the Czar and his family destroyed along with countless other people?

I ask this.. because there were other countries who were indeed overthrown peacefully.. Certainly they should have seen it coming - the weakening of the country in the long run. The Revolution was a mistake. In the end.. I wonder what it would be like if the Czars existed as does the English Monarch.

Answer 1

Russia would have been much better off if the Monarchy had remained in place, and the governance of the country had taken on the more successful aspects of Great Britain ...

Answer 2

MY Grandparents left Poland, near the Russian border where they lived and, were under Russian rule at the time. They all left due to the harsh serfdom lifestyle.
They told stories of their lives when they were children, I would think the children of today should have to share these lives for a time to appreciate what they have, freedom, religion and freedom to travel, to actually eat meat.

Do you know the people were not allowed to eat meat unless it was authorized by the then ruling governor, chosen by the Czar.
Veggies were O.K. but eating any meat with proper O.K. could by you a prison sentence.
My Grandmother recalls eating some pork left over from a official wedding and, being good servants, the leftovers were scraped in buckets and given to the best of the citizens to eat and, they couldn't share them, it was the only time she ate pork, she wouldn't eat it anymore for those reasons.

Her basic meals were composed of potatoes and some veggies that didn't go to the big estates. All chickens were accounted for, if they died they had to be kept for accounting. The same with all other farm produce.

So, you choose, where would or, how would you chose to live?

Answer 3

Yes, it could be.
Nobody knows exactly.


cowboydoc, what a ridiculous things they told you.
It couldn't be possible: a Governor taking care about poor commoners!
Maybe, they were the Jews, and only their rabbi allowed them eating meat. That WAS a common practice in Hasidic communities in Poland.
Maybe, they were the servants of a local schlachticz (a nobleman), too poor to buy some meat, so they ate only their Pan's (=Master's) leftovers.
My great-grandfather was a literate village headman, rich enough to have 100 hectars of land and forest, and had his own farmstead in Northern Russia. As an inheritance, he left 2 large brick houses and 2kg of silver and gold in coins.

Answer 4

Nobody knows...it could be best for Russia if Czar and his royal family were overthrown compadably peaceful way

Answer 5

Ask the czar, czarina and the czardines that question....

" You cannot build a nation on the foundation of murder "

( Jack Ryan talking about Russian history to a Russian "spy " )


-Tom Clancy

Answer 6

Stalin was a genocidal madman.Of course Russia would have been better without communism.Doh!!!

Answer 7

Absolutely. Much better.

The historical verdict has long been in on that one.