There have been some beneficial effects of the CR (gender equality initiatives, local power mobilization, strengthening ideological commitment within the party and scaring the actual capitalist roaders and wannabe Yeltsins/Gorbachevs into compliance, yada yada) but yeah, the idea that it could have ultimately ended any other way is silly.
You are right but, by the same token, we can say the CR hurt some of those apparent strengths because the CR needed to be dismantled, so gender equality for example made progress that was founded on the CR but when the CR was ended and most of its policy reversed, gender equality suffered a backslide. A project that was less utopian could have preserved those gains by virtue of not half-destroying the country and needing to be combated.
There have been some beneficial effects of the CR (gender equality initiatives, local power mobilization, strengthening ideological commitment within the party and scaring the actual capitalist roaders and wannabe Yeltsins/Gorbachevs into compliance, yada yada) but yeah, the idea that it could have ultimately ended any other way is silly.
You are right but, by the same token, we can say the CR hurt some of those apparent strengths because the CR needed to be dismantled, so gender equality for example made progress that was founded on the CR but when the CR was ended and most of its policy reversed, gender equality suffered a backslide. A project that was less utopian could have preserved those gains by virtue of not half-destroying the country and needing to be combated.
True. If anything, it empowered some rightist elements who associated the positive social aspects of the CR with... everything else.
There were massive parades when the Gang of Four got arrested. This is what happens when you unironically call funerals "bourgeois decadence.".
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