The legacy of the Russian Revolution is helping to bolster the Russian President’s position
, slowed Russia’s growth and caused hundreds of Western businesses to leave the country. The invasion has also dramatically weakened Russia’s power on the world stage. Mr. Putin has lost influence in Central Asia and his country’s ties to the European elite. Russia has become “Despite such catastrophic policy failures, he remains firmly ensconced. No serious challenger has yet emerged in Russia either from within or outside the government.
Mr. Putin’s ability to rule unchallenged and his resilience in the face of recent problems can partly be traced to Vladimir Lenin’s Russian Revolution, which took place more than a hundred years ago. Social revolutions – such as those in Russia in 1917, China in 1949, Cuba in 1959, Vietnam in 1954, and Iran in 1979 – have historically produced some of the most durable autocracies in the modern world.
In China, Mao Zedong similarly sought to destroy and humiliate China’s entire ruling elite. In Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini attempted to incite Islamic revolution against dictatorships in the Persian Gulf.
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