Why did socialism fail in Russia?

6/22/19
 
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from Quora,
5/29/19:

There are several reasons why socialism couldn’t be built in the former Soviet Union (fSU) given the conditions that faced the Lenin and the Bolsheviks.

[In what follows I am using “socialist” and “communist” (and their cognates) interchangeably and, in most cases, in conformity with Marx’s understanding of those terms]

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