What if the anarcho-socialists came on top after the Russian Civil War?

[Some Moran]

That would have rocked.

[RichM]

1. Would you like to expand on this thought a bit?

For example, why would it have rocked?

[Some Moran]

2. Easy...

Would you rather be governed by people who think like Noam Chomsky or people who think like Vlad Lenin?

[lancemurdoch]

3. well...

...I think the anarcho-socialists would have been better as well, but I don't think Russia would have remained autonomous until the early 1990's. It would have been just another quick, short-lived thing like Southeast Spain in the mid to late 1930's. In fact if you read the western press in the days after 1917, they kept saying the USSR was on the verge of collapsing. There were right 75 years later, but by then the USSR had an older government than Germany, France, Ireland, Italy and so forth.

[Nederland]

4. true

It would have been short lived. Pure socialism can never compete with capitalist countries. Trotsky realised this early on when he said that one country cannot be socialist, it must be the whole world.

[MSchreader]

5. The anarcho-socialists were not directly involved in the Civil War

You're probably thinking of Kronstadt, where the anarchists had seized control. In all reality, though, if Kronstadt had succeeded, it is likely that the capitalists would have been back in power within a year. The balance of forces would not have allowed for the Kronstadt uprising to meet its expectations.

Martin