I feel like an assumption I come up against a lot with liberals is that the USSR had basically the same ownership class structure and wealth distribution that similarly developed capitalist classes had. I tried Binging this but don't have a good sense of what authors to trust.
Walter Scheidel had a lot of interesting information in his The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century ( amazon | Arr! ), but keep in mind the USSR is not the sole subject of the work. And tbh, as interesting as it all is, it's dry as hell. Lots of numbers and graphs and whatnot.
Interesting, never heard of the title thanks!
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