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Russia was far from the most likely candidate to have a communist revolution and the assumption was by Marx and others that such revolution would more likely occur in a more industrialized nation.
If a western European nation experienced a communist revolution rather than Russia would the spread and proliferation of communism be-it in Europe or around the world been significantly different?