No, it is Matt's usual take of the USSR. Basically, because of trying to do revolution in a still mostly feudal place, and that not being the spark that lit off revolution elsewhere with an industrialized economy(e.g. Germany), they had to more or less industrialize on their own. And this socialism in one (feudal) country required all the dirty work and violence inherent in industrialization and proletarianization were done under the banner of Communism rather than Capitalism. Both alienating people from the project of communism and providing easy propaganda for capitalists.
They explicitly state that they are looking at best possible alternate scenarios, so discounting we still get the Nazi and they rule Europe after WWII or the Russian right wing reaction forms some proto-fascism in ~1917. So best case is that the fact that there isn't a Moscow to point to in a Red Scare, leads the US to be less able to justify interventions abroad and crush left wing movements so totally, so we could get something else, somewhere else with some focus on American left wing movements since they are both Americans more knowledgeable about American culture and politics.
No, it is Matt's usual take of the USSR. Basically, because of trying to do revolution in a still mostly feudal place, and that not being the spark that lit off revolution elsewhere with an industrialized economy(e.g. Germany), they had to more or less industrialize on their own. And this socialism in one (feudal) country required all the dirty work and violence inherent in industrialization and proletarianization were done under the banner of Communism rather than Capitalism. Both alienating people from the project of communism and providing easy propaganda for capitalists.
They explicitly state that they are looking at best possible alternate scenarios, so discounting we still get the Nazi and they rule Europe after WWII or the Russian right wing reaction forms some proto-fascism in ~1917. So best case is that the fact that there isn't a Moscow to point to in a Red Scare, leads the US to be less able to justify interventions abroad and crush left wing movements so totally, so we could get something else, somewhere else with some focus on American left wing movements since they are both Americans more knowledgeable about American culture and politics.