At the end of World War I, the February Revolution broke out in Russia and the Romanov dynasty was overthrown. Soon after, the October Revolution broke out and Russia entered the Soviet era. From the 10 era to the end of 1930s, the Soviet Union had been vigorously developing industrialization, and had become the second largest industrial country in the world before the outbreak of World War II. However, it seems unreasonable to see such a situation, because due to the limitations of its own environment and technological development, Russia's national strength at the end of 19 was far behind the European powers, and after World War I, Russia basically ran out of oil and lamps, which led to the revolution. In the early days of the Soviet Union's birth, due to the difficulties of Belarus and the blockade of foreign powers, the Soviet Union had little strength. However, under such harsh conditions, it only took the Soviet Union 20 years to counterattack, so how did the Soviet Union do it?

First, the popularization of the achievements of the second industrial revolution. Russia is located on the edge of the European civilization circle, with harsh natural environment and no good access to the sea. So far, it still retains a large number of relics of the farming era, so the level of civilization development lags far behind other powerful countries. Russia only relies on its huge volume to make up for the lack of quality and safeguard the face of a big country.

However, with the wide spread of the achievements of the industrial revolution in the second half of the world and the outbreak of the second industrial revolution. European civilization has made great strides as a whole, and Britain, France, Germany, the United States and other countries have made qualitative breakthroughs because of the great industrial strength of machinery. However, due to the harsh natural environment and backward social structure, Russia lags far behind other powerful countries in the early stage of the transformation of mechanized large-scale industrial model. Too backward civilization quality can no longer be offset by scale advantage. Therefore, at the end of 19 and the beginning of the 20th century, Russia became "the weak link of imperialism".

However, when the Bolsheviks rose, things got better. 1922 The Soviet Union was formally established, and half a century has passed since the second industrial revolution began in 1870.

In the past 50 years, the high-end technology of the second industrial revolution has become more mature, the cost of popularization has been greatly reduced, and the efficiency and practicality have been greatly improved. This is a good situation for Russia.

Russia is located in a cold place and its natural environment is harsh, which makes it difficult to apply some important achievements of the industrial revolution in Russia, such as railways. The harsh environment greatly increases the technical difficulty and construction cost. This is also a major factor in the decline of Russia in the second half of the19th century.

But in the 1920s, the mechanized large-scale industrial technology gradually matured and the cost was reduced. It is possible for Russia to use the achievements of the second industrial revolution on a large scale-trans-siberian railway was opened to traffic in 19 16.

Russia finally waited for the opportunity to turn over. Russia has a territory of 20 million square kilometers and has world-class geographical potential. With the improvement of science and technology, Russia has been able to carry out preliminary large-scale industrial development of a large number of frozen deserts, and has also realized Russia's geographical potential and greatly improved its national strength.

Of course, the rise of the Soviet Union is not only due to objective material factors, but also due to the Soviet Union itself.

Second, the Soviet Union subverted the old social relations with extreme violence and established a social structure based on industrialization. The lower classes in Ti Tuo seized power through violent revolution. Although this method eliminated the original social relations and organizational structure in one fell swoop in the shortest time, it also had disadvantages. This way is too cruel, and it will bring great social unrest and economic losses in a short time. Therefore, if it is just an ordinary regime change, violent revolution is not the best choice.

However, the Soviet Union did not simply replace Russia. Because there are a lot of remnants of farming civilization in Russia, its internal interest groups are also established based on this economic structure, forming the basis of political power.

The backward interest structure determines that it will inevitably become a stumbling block to Russia's large-scale industrialization-when industry replaces agriculture, it will naturally seriously damage the original interests of interest groups, and the transformation of agriculture into a new industrial economic structure can not guarantee their interests and social status, so they resist economic transformation.

If we adopt internal improvement or moderate revolution instead of violent revolution, Russia's industrialization revolution will be hindered by interest groups, which will naturally seriously hinder Russia's rapid rise.

So the violent revolution is a good medicine for Russia's rapid rise.

Of course, the violent revolution quickly consumed the wealth of the country in a short time. Therefore, for a country with a well-off family, it is not cost-effective to adopt this method.

However, Russian families at that time were not rich. With the delay of industrial transformation, Russia's national strength has been declining since the second half of the19th century, and with the consumption of World War I, Russia has almost reached the end of its tether. Therefore, for poor Russia, the violent revolution will not make it suffer too much. So the Bolshevik violent revolution has more advantages than disadvantages for Russia.

Third, the political system of the Soviet Union helped the rapid rise of the Soviet Union. If the Soviet Union wants to accumulate national strength, it needs to engage in industrial development throughout the country. But it faces two problems: first, the natural environment is very bad, mostly frozen soil and desert, which is not suitable for human survival; Second, Russia has a vast territory and complex geographical and cultural institutions. A large number of ethnic minorities lack a sense of national identity and live in various marginal plates.

This situation will make the Soviet Union not respond to the government's call because of the difficult conditions and the lack of national identity in industrial construction and territorial development.

So, how can the Soviet Union solve this problem without money? Then we can only rely on strong politics and use "strength" to deter the people, so that they must respond to the government's call to engage in high-intensity labor and dare not ask for too much compensation. In this way, it took the Soviet Union an extreme time to realize the transformation from agriculture to industry, thus completing the accumulation of wealth and boosting the rapid rise of Russia.

These are the three reasons that Yun believes that the Soviet Union rose rapidly. There are both objective conditions and subjective factors actively promoted by the Soviet regime. Of course, from a humanitarian point of view, some practices of the Soviet Union are extreme, but from a practical point of view, it is really because of these extreme practices that Russia climbed out of the deep valley in such a short time and became a superpower on a par with the United States, and became a world leader alongside the United States in the middle and late 20th century.