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Could a non-communist governement also industrialise Russia into a major military power?
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Let's say Russia goes out of the WW1 in the same style but qucikly deals with any revolutionares before they can cause maor urprisings so the monarchy, busines and old elites remain in power. I mean that the Tsar still rules Russia.

It's often stated that Stalin in a brutal way industrialised USSR, displaced maybe even millions of people to construct and work in huge state-owned factories, he also borrowed money for it and imported a lot of important technologies and machines from abroad, mostly from USA.

Could a traditional Russia still recognise the need to boost their industrial power in a very major way?
But in a more classic, capitalist way with private companies expanding their businesses and people leaving impoverished countryside to work in them.

Perhaps these factories would be at first more efficient, made by people who propably ran previous factories already existing in Russia and would have an existing technicians and industry specialists because they were not kicked out by the revolution?

But do you think a tsarist Russia would still pump out for example ten thousands of tanks and similar machines of war if a hostile Germany started arming itself too or would they propably have a smaller military?
Would they be able to also resist Germany's attrition warfare and produce enough equipment in a huge industrial way like in WW2 and compete, eventually overcome Germany with the Allies' help?

Maybe their designs would be less crude because a lot of skilled designers would remain in Russia, there wouldnt be a total technological reset and starting from the scratch? So their machines would be more ergonomic, easier to drive etc. but perhaps a smaller amount of them would be produced?

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