Their political system was a relic of the past, a time when street revolutions still happened.
Street unrest led to the forced abdication of the kaiser, the proclamation of a republic, a soviet government in Munich, and a near-miss of one in Berlin, only prevented by a timely blow to Rosa Luxemburg's head. The uprising did not fulfill all its proponents' hopes, in terms of ushering in a new socialist dawn, but it decisively refuted the idea that modern conditions had made revolution obsolete.
The weather made the Russian Revolution as much as any other factor.
The second revolution, which installed the Bolsheviks, was enabled by another problem familiar to modern readers: street crime.
To launch a real revolution more than kindling is needed.
Russia could have been saved by means of reform short of revolution, but the people who should have tried to accomplish that balancing act lacked any investment in the existing order.
Less than a week after the Mattis interview, The Atlantic ran a piece by Franklin Foer suggesting that the color revolution model might be a good one to follow if more American officials could be persuaded to treat President Trump the way Ukrainians treated their corrupt President Yanukovych in the days before he hopped a plane to Moscow.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/2020-is-tumbling-toward-1917/
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