RousseauX
Donor
Because Germany was already an industrialized country and Russia wasn't: Russia can achieve very fast growth simply by moving peasants into factories. Germany has less peasants to move into factories because it already industrialized in the 19th century.Once again there are quite a few posters looking at Russia in a vacuum. If the Russian economic upturn (IMO unsustainable, as others have said) would elevate their GDP and per capita incomes without WWI, why would it not also increase Germany's? If the Russians would improve without the negative effects of global war, surely the Germans would continue to improve as well.