How could we arrange things so that Nihilism rather than Bolshevik Communism wins out during the Russian Revolution? What would a Nihilist Russia be like? What would the impacts be on the history of the world?
How could we arrange things so that Nihilism rather than Bolshevik Communism wins out during the Russian Revolution? What would a Nihilist Russia be like? What would the impacts be on the history of the world?
You probably need to moderate it first.
After all chaos is not going to be popular, people will flock to any institution or movement that promises order, and security.
YOu need a military and police for that.
You need money for finiacial transactions.
Judges, or all disputes either translate into violence or people spontanously form courts to negotiate disputes, which then immediately become political institutions.
Thing is, Nihimilism basically arose from a series intellectual impulses beginning with the Napoleonic Wars. Politically, it was purely negative in scope (thus the name) and that it wasn't going to replace the Tsarist state with anything was the whole point. As soon as you come up with an actual plan to change the Russian state, you're a Kadet or a Social Revolutionary or whatever.