It will bury you … in vodka.
Soooooo they’re about due for a revolution then? 
Do you have a cite for this? Because it contradicts everything I’ve learned over the last fifty years.
Marx expected the Revolution to start in Britain or Germany because they were the most industrially advanced countries of the time and had the largest proletariats. Russia was the country he least expected to have a revolution precisely because it was so underdeveloped and backward.
Lenin was an opportunist who took advantage of the opportunity presented by the weak Provisional Government and managed to seize power because the proletariat Russia had acquired by 1917 was concentrated in Moscow and Petrograd, the country’s two seats of power. The rest of the population went along with the Bolsheviks because they promised them land, bread, and an end to the war with Germany.
Modnote: It is official, it is OK to hijack this thread with anything at all relevant to it. Still need to avoid insulting other posters, but relaxed rules on this oddball thread. The above is fine.
Please note, I wrote “this thread”.
LOL, you are my favorite mod no question. 
Well, now we’re going hog wild. As opposed to the last 150 posts, which were all intelligent, inciteful, and on-topic.
Exactly.
I’ll give you that.
LOL, great catch!
Unfortunately I gave away the excellent biography by Francis Wheen. He went through all letters between Marx and Engels and IIRC, the cite is from one of those letters, i.e. not his official publications. Interestingly, in another letter Engels asks Marx if he thinks they’ll be alive for the revolution, to which Marx replied: “Oh, I hope not.”
I know this is a very vague and unsatisfying answer, but those two things stuck in my memory since they were - as you say - quite contrary to the official writings.
It’s a very good read. Maybe I should pick up a new copy.
Wheen is the author of several books, including a biography of Karl Marx[4] which won the Deutscher Memorial Prize in 1999,[5] and has been translated into twenty languages.[6] He followed this with a notional “biography” of Das Kapital , which follows the creation and publication of the first volume of Marx’s major work as well as other incomplete volumes. Wheen had a column in The Guardian for several years. He writes for Private Eye and is currently the magazine’s deputy editor. His collected journalism, Hoo-hahs and Passing Frenzies , won him the Orwell Prize in 2003. He has also been a regular columnist for the London Evening Standard .
< runs exuberantly through the thread >
Wooooohooooooooo!
The only thing that held back the Russian music industry from world domination was not enough old x-ray films. Chernobyl was staged to increase the volume in medical testing in the region, but sadly it came too late.
Fascinating stuff! Thanks for posting that link. Here’s another link, this one from the video embedded in that webpage, which directs to where one can sample the X-ray tunes: X-Ray Bootlegs — BONE MUSIC
The same Katherine Hepburn who was having an affair with a married man? 
Are you Shah?
Sultanly!
I can’t believe you’re Cyrus.
Would you believe Iran the country?
If Ayatollah you something like that myself, you wouldn’t have believed me.
My concern is that you’ll take this to Farsi.