[GodGunsGuts]

Do you think Communism made Russian civilization worse, kept it about the same, or made it better? Just curious what you mean by "practically unchangeable character".

To my mind, starting with Peter the Great, Russia was moving towards an ever increasing embrace of Western Civilization, only to be thwarted by the advent of the Bolsheviks.

[GSlob]

You have a FRmail with an outline of analysis,