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Why Is Russia Not Rich?
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- Опубликовано: 6 авг 2024
- Russia has always been a rather poor country. From it's start under Ivan the Terrible in 1547 to Serfdom. Russian elites kept the common people economically impoverished. On top of that Russia's geography is large and difficult to transport stuff with. meaning trade was limited.
During the industrial revolution Russia did not develop under capitalism. Laissez-faire capitalism has limited results and could not compete with foreign competitors. They then attempted the Emancipation Reform of 1861 to free the serfs and lift Russian peasants out of poverty. But they forced peasants to pay for the land, making any extra income often worthless.
The Communist Revolution caused another great crisis but Russia did develop during its early socialist period. The Command Economy worked to reduce friction in the economy. During the Great Depression they caught up with the west in political and military power.
However, after Stalin corruption began to set in and in the 1960s-1980s Cold War Russia slowly declined in economic growth. Eventually by 1989 the Breakup of the Soviet Union began. Communism was replaced with an oligarchy and feudalism. Which was the old communist system with a hint of capitalism and feudalism. When Putin came to power their economy became more and more corrupt and russia is now in a downward spiral economically as its economy begins to age and is unable to import replacement parts due to sanction.
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Articles
A. Baykov - The Economic History Review, New Series, Vol. 7, No. 2 (1954), pp. 137-149
E. Zhuravskaya, S. Guriev, A. Markevich, Andrei - New Russian Economic History (November 13, 2021). Journal of Economic Literature, forthcoming
V.V. Moiseev - The Main Reasons for the Backward Economy of Russia. 2019 International Conference on Politics, Economics and Management (ICPEM 2019)
R. E. Ericson - Does Russia Have a "Market Economy"?, East European Politics and Societies. Vol. 15, No. 0 (2001), pp. 291-319.
T. F. Remington - Russian Economic Inequality in Comparative Perspective. Comparative Politics. Vol. 50, No. 3, Special Issue: Wither Russia? Twenty-Five Years After the Collapse of Communism (April 2018), pp. 395-416
A. Cheremukhin, M. Golosov, S. Guriev, A. Tsyvinski - The Industrialization and Economic Development of Russia through the Lens of a Neoclassical Growth Model. Review of Economic Studies (2016) 0, 1-37
F. Novokmet, T. Piketty, G. Zucman - From Soviets to oligarchs: inequality and property in Russia 1905-2016. J Econ Inequal (2018) 16:189-223
37:33 his smile stayed on the screen 😂
I saw that at the end of production too but decided it wasn't worth the effort. I didn't think someone would notice so quickly
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@@HistoryScope keep it in, I loved noticing it 🤣
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@@HistoryScope may i ask where you getting all this info from? Used to be a massive fan of the channel but im starting to realise that you do videos based on your opinion not facts. This video makes me wonder how true your other videos are🤦♂️
A continuous history of not harnessing universal self interest to improve your country .
I once was told a story: there was a really rich (by the scale of epoch) jewish grandpa somewhere in Moscow in 1990-00s, he was driving an old Moskvich, wore shabby clothes, but walls of his apartment were covered in 3 layers of different paintings and golden orthodox icons. When a young guy asked him: you are 65, you are rich, why dont you buy a Mercedes, finally that the ussr is no more, and you can afford it? He answered: you know what? our country is like a barrell filled with shit and an axe reconing just over the edge of the barrell, you either lose your head to your disgust or pride, or suffocate in it, and its our duty in that goddam barrell to just let the lips out, just enough to sip air.
Envy is even more powerful force then self interest. But it works towards bringing down everyone.
Russia universal self-interest is to secure its geography by expand westward. Every. Single. Government. Has. And. Will. Try. It.
The only ones to succeed were those under tsar alexander and stalin.
The soviet union was capable of conducting world-leading engineering research with the right motivation - their military tech was as capable as anything the US had, they won every milestone in the space race, and always had the lead in nuclear power technology. But they never adapted their new advances into benefits for civilians. It was all limited to military applications or major government projects, with no interest in commercialising it or generating products that would be useful to ordinary citizens.
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Man it's really cool that literally every single statement you made was false.
They were consistently behind in both military and civilian technology, throughout the coldwar, although this didn't make them by any means not a threat or able to apply what they could make or even had the US didn't, they were certainly capable but without the sheer technological and economic might of the USA there are lots they couldn't keep up with.
They absolutely did not win every milestone in the space race, this statement is as stupid as it obvious, they had a hell of a lot of accomplishments for sure, but so did the Americans (and Nato), it was a genuine technological race for spacecraft and rocketry, and obscenely expensive for both sides.
And the point on Nuclear power technology surprisingly isn't won by the US or the USSR, but by France of all nations during the cold war, this is an interesting thing to look into if you ever read any source outside of tankie's Reddit. Hell, you might not even know that the Nation that dropped the most nukes in the pacific was not the USA.
Russia is rich ,the average russian is not .
the GDP is literally lower then some US states.not really sure if that's rich especially for a country of its size
@@under6075 To be fair; if Russia were a US state it would be 4th in gdp. 24/29 EU states have lower gdps than Russia. Only Germany, France and Italy have higher GDPs.
By global standards, the average Russian is definitely "rich" (far above the high-income threshold).
@@HigherMorality depends though are you referring to moscow russia ot siberia russia. the difference in standard of living between areas in russia is massive. Bald and dangerous did a video of his trip through russia and you can see the massive difference in standard of living during his trip
@@under6075 Russia is 10th in the world and 5th in GDP ppp. Yes, Russia is rich in comparison to rest of the world. None of those us states faced anything near what Russia faced in it's history.
If I see another "first" comment, serfdom will not be a thing of the past anymore
First
@@HistoryScope😂😂😂
@@HistoryScope He said "not".
@@HistoryScopeBro actually said it
@lucarosu931 It's the dumbest possible thing to comment, but I just hope that it's only preteens or something doing that. If adults do... that's just sad.
Before i watch the video, i'll guess the reasons from what i learned from our history books (i live in russia): serfdom, mongols, division of russian states, stalin's killstreak of 7.3 million and germany's killstreak of 30 million. (also, the history books they gave us say it is 11. 5 million, thats why i used wiki and roughly added ww1 and ww2 deaths, same with stalin's killstreak)
After i watched the video: yeah, of course they didn't tell anything about that in school, why did i think the opposite? i learned more aboht russian economy from here than from russian goverment.
bro where do you get the number of 38mio killed by germans?
@@BlubberBuddhaHe said he went to school in Russia.
I'm pretty sure Hitler killed about 30 million people, and Stalin around 3-9 million people, depending on how you categorize it.
There is a key factor this video ignores, the Cold war killed any chances of the Soviet's recovering from WW2. The USSR spent between 10-20% of it's GDP on military spending, in peace time 5% is the recommended maximimum. Most of the rest going towards heavy industry, and while this is good for certain parts of the economy, such as steel and chemical production, aeronautics, and nuclear power. It crippled the living standards of the average citizen, with agriculture and light industries being neglected. By '50, steel production was double what it was in '40, light industry and agriculture, however, were only the same as it was in the '30s.
@@tntsummers926what you're saying is, get rid of Russia and you're good.
@@lombardo141their overall GDP was competitive with the US during the Cold War. Not their per capita GDP or their living standards.
The elites, the elites, the elites.. I’m starting to see a pattern here.. might want to do something about that
Trust me, they tried…
@@user-yh1nm1vy3i They tried and replaced one group of elites with a different one lmao
They won't.
This problem is actually more or less universal, it exists in every country to some extent.
The only answer that works is to establish stable and universal rule of law that does not favor them,
but be aware of their existence and importance because if they are disturbed they are the ones who have resources to actually change something
Well Putin purged some of them recently, and consolodated government control, who knows what'll happen to their properties. I don't think they are going to the other elites this time tbh.
it's because of me
U crazy 😂❤🎉
Why bro
you do a good job of keeping Russians poor.
How could you do this 😢😢😢
Based.
Too little chocolate
Soviet Russia hates chocolate, only potatoes and wheat can be eaten there
Ministry of plenty announces that the chocolate ration has been increased to 20 grams per week.
@@vcombatx7165 Thank you Big Brother for giving us more chocolate.
not enoug bananas
@@certaindeath7776 You have committed a thought crime reporting you to thought police
how about a video of why brazil isn’t rich or a superpower?
Maybe
@@ryangoslingofficialfr Vast majority of Brazilians don't live in Jungle lol. The country as a whole actually has pretty stellar geography for large-scale human settlement, all things considered. The interrelated problems of a corrupt oligarchy, the long-term repercussion of Brazil's economy being initially built around massive chattel-slave plantations, and "latifundio" agriculture which trapped most of the population in quasi-serfdom until the early-to-mid-20th century, crippled Brazil's natural potential.
@@p00bixI'd argue against that bit about the plantation system. The US was the same, especially the south, and as mentioned in the video so was Japan. South Korea was basically the same too with the south being used to farm and fish as glorified slaves to feed the factories in Japan and they were treated pretty similarly to chattel slaves being viewed as racially inferior and prevented from gaining useful skills and being treated as second class citizens in their own country until after WW2. Taiwan wasn't much better off prior to the effective end of the Chinese Civil War.
I'd argue that their oligarchy and over reliance to agriculture were both bigger issues since even today they rely heavily on a few cash crops for their exports and unlike 100 years ago its hard for people to enter the market of modern agriculture since you need expensive equipment like GPS guided combines and specially designed smart sprayers to be competitive, making it harder for small farms to compete and mainly benefits the giant mega-farms.
full of Brazilians
@@theEtchAs a Brazilian, I agree
I was listening but not watching when I heard the Office Space reference. Was pleased to see the graphic.
More than almost any other channel, these videos do a great job connecting how the motives and perspectives of individuals is interrelated with larger social structures and history.
You’ve had pretty solid and consistent quality since you’ve started! Keep up the good work man!
No. It´s surreal.
Russia is the king of self sabotage 😂
I don't think it's self sabotaging as much as it's natural product of unfortunate geography.
Imperial China was not far behind… maybe even worse.
@@KolyaUrtz Cannot put the blame for all shit that is going on in that country on geography.
@@Sunthaz You can for most. Most events in history are directly caused by geography. Also, if it isnt geography...what would it be? Lets see how racist are you.
@@Sunthaz Considering the fact that russians are, objectively, naturally smart(smarter than most ethnicities in europe) and are generally described as extremely creative and resilient...what could possibly cause russian economy to not be on par with some other nations? Since we can directly explain it with geography...any you are claiming that geography isnt the cause...then what is? Provide critique of geography theory and then provide logic and evidence for your theory.
Didn't watch the video yet, betting on oligarchs and corruption
I was kinda right
Incompetence is the major reason, ever since the 16th century - bad governing, bad policies, bad decisions and total ignorance of the quality of life of normal people over imperialistic expansion. Accurate to this day actually.
@@BBSr-q2w "brain drain"
Oligarchs and corruption exist in ALL countries
Not just that but yeah
Suprised your EU map showing where oligarchs invest money excludes the UK. I know Brexit happened but London is one of the biggest stashes of oligarch money in the world
It hurts so much to see through the ages as my country just failing to do what is right
the main thing is to know that the USSR is evil
Same bro. Different country, but I'm in the same situation
Another great vid can't wait till the next one 💪🏿👍🏿
Thank you for this video. It was very interesting!
and of course with the draft being imposed, many skilled russians fled to other countries. Really did shoot themselves in the foot
They experienced decades of brain drain in a matter of months. Putin drove out nearly as many skilled workers out of Russia as the collapse of the USSR.
not to mention the hundreds of thousands of working age men going to the war to never return or do so in a condition in which they'll never be able to participate in the economy again... that is sure gonna make both the economic and demographic issues far worse on its own
@@Andrew-ob5ij draft is not being imposed in Russia pls, stop inhaling CNN shit!
Being imposed? There was ONE draft, in autumm 2022. And no other followed.
@@Prushinthespirit Because first one never ended lol. Without any explicit cancelation it's still legally in action. And with no concrete goals they only limited by how much they can actually logistically support to mobilize, which is roughly about 30k-40k people a month according to Ukrainian intelligence. Which is just slightly above their casualties and explains perfectly well why size of their military neither drastically decrease due to insane casualties nor increased despite constant mobilization, as they simply balance each other out.
As a Russian, absolute banger video. Pretty much everything you said is a fact, which is very unusual for a video made by someone without access to Russian sources.
I would also mention the reason why historically Russian rulers tend to please nobility. In the 18th century we saw 6 successful nobility plots against the ruling monarch. So as soon as a new emperor tried to help the serfs, he was overthrown by the nobility. This caused the coming 150 years of monarchs to please the nobility instead of normal people. We see this situation repeat today. Eltsin, Putin and any coming president has to balance between the oligarchs and people. If he tries to fight them, he very well might get rid of.
I’d also add the fact that the previous century saw nearly no year where the people could prosper. 1914-1924 is war, civil war and famine, 1924-1941 is Stalins dictatorship, famine, gulags. Then comes the Second World War. Only after Stalin’s death do we see maybe a decade where most progress was made. Then comes a total economic collapse. Only the 2000s and the start of Putin’s presidency brings some stability (this is why so many older people like Putin so much - he brought real stability) and then we have Ukraine and Covid.
And if we count the unnecessary losses from all of this, we would probably get >50 million.
Seems like whenever Russia gets on the track of prosperity some new shit happens that sends it right back.
The west fears a strong Russia that is why it always sabotages Russia's development. Russia is just to big to have some peace.
im russian too - you forgot that russians like to be ruled - they do what they get said by the government, best example the war in Ukraine.
They dont understand that Putin is the root of all this BS happening right now - and so they make lots of videos where they beg him for help xD like peseants....
also, ironically , while begging to Putin, they fear to say something bad about him ot the government....
@@1armeddrummerinaprisonrock244This is not west where you have to be a libtard to be called as freedom.
This is Russia home of braves, where we have right to criticize whoever we can.
that 'stability' u said gonna be his position and dictatorship... as long as ppl think stability came from iron fist rule...better look how north korean ppl stabilized
I appreciate the content you provide
So basically, before 1917, Russia had an oligarchy even then with the regional businesses forming a monopoly by the Czar granting businesses to elites in exchange for their political support. The more things change, the more things stay the same. I'm not saying life under the USSR was any picnic, but we essentially have a new Czar in Russia, Vladimir Putin. Russia's turn to democracy was a dream that died early.
Democracy to Westerners just means capitalism, ironically the least democratic system after outright single person dictatorship.
They didn't turn to democracy, they left it behind and with it their standard of living which was quite good, their money, their future prospects and instead they got desperate poverty, widespread homelessness, child prostitution and the biggest out of wartime humanitarian disaster in history.
Putin take all the money 😂
Like all other Russian leaders before him
He is just following the tradition
There was never a moment in history where the Russians were not poor. They're a warring people only
Who needs industrialization and development of infrastructure? Give me all the money -Putin
Russia has always been poor
@@BOZ_11 Not poor, not rich either
First unified by the Mongols? I guess the Kievan Rus didn't exist in this timeline or something.
I think they inherited the Mongol type leadership. While the Renaissance was happening in Europe, the Russians were still paying tribute to the Mongols.
Kievan Rus is a different country
What does russia have to do with the Kyivan Rus?
@@danielturczan2485being the direct descendant of that state
@@enriquehidalgo630renaissance started a century after “mongols” were no more
But there was a problem 😂
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This is a great video!
Again really great video, thank you very much ❤️
This was alot of work, thank you so much all your information. It was perfect!!
I haven’t done much research on this topic but your vdo is excellent in explaining why such a vast country with enormous resources remains mediocre in income
Good job
Greetings from Australia ✌🏼
Don't worry, the guy who made this video also didn't do much research lol
Well-reasoned explanation. Thanks.
Thx for this
You are so good at explaining things❤
8:16 This is technically incorrect. The land was owned by the Commune. A peasant owned nothing but his horse and his house. Voices in the heads of the reformers (and later - socialist revolutionaries like Narodninks) told them Commune will manage this land efficiently without inequality and other social stresses. In reality you cannot expect a collective to be eager to take risks, which is a prerequisite to any development. The amount of land they received was actually the biggest in the continental Europe, especially in fertile Black Earth regions, but it just could not be used efficiently by commune. Also, direct taxes never exceeded more that 5-10% of the state budget income, so that segment is also bogus.
OMG I have learned so much watching this video. Now I finally understand! Thank you this video is so informational, I highly recommended for everybody to watch!
Before watching I’ll posit some reasons. 1. Firstly, Russia was based on a system of serfdom for much longer than other European powers like Germany, France, or Great Britain. That largely prevented industrialization, advancements in farming or transportation, and the development of an modern industrial economy in the early 1900’s. 2. Russias transition into industrialization was both mismanaged and brutal under the Soviet Union. While Western Europe was developing a middle class with an economic boom in the 1920’s, Russia was going through a painful and often ineffective program for industrialization and collectivization. Russias middle class (if you can truly call them that) were called kulaks and they owned and managed farms throughout Ukraine and Central Asia. In the first of stalins purges he completely eliminated the kulaks along with any expertise they had in their professions. This was done for the purpose of collectvistong farms and eliminating hated land owners, but the result was a brain drain that led to famines coupled by central planning needing grain exports to fuel Russians mass industrialization. This led to a massive famine throughout Ukraine and Central Asia where millions of potential workers and farmers died over time. Combine that with Stalin’s purges and the routine failure of soviet leadership to establish a prosperous economy and you get a stagnate population that leaves Russias vast and fertile plains in Central Asia and lower Siberia unplowed, unsettled, and thus unproductive (that’s why Russias population is still clustered around Moscow and the west of the country). 3. Lastly, corruption has hampered Russia for hundreds of years, especially in its current state and under the Soviet Union. Under the Soviets this problem got so bad that a class of top bureaucrats called nomenklatura would develop and would become infamous throughout the union for their luxurious and corrupt life styles that drained public funds and prevented the economy from fully advancing. Privilege and hypocrisy were plagues in central leadership during the soviet unions lifetime, and it didn’t get better when Putin came to power. Putin was a bureaucrat who used his time and connections with the KGB to effectively blackmail his way to power while surrounding himself with other top former bureaucrats who, in the chaotic transition into a capitalist economy, would secure for themselves monopolies on certain industries becoming the oligarchs we know today. This and the still rampant corruption in the Russian government hampers economic and intellectual growth as the economy has been relatively stagnant since the 2000’s and Putin expansionism has only curtailed it further due to western sanctions. As a result, same old cynicism towards the government and society that was present under the Soviets is still present in Russia today. Unsurprisingly, people don’t have kids, drink a lot, and generally move to freer countries if they’re skilled or educated workers. The rest of Russian society is comprised of elderly people riding on an expansive welfare state that drain’s governmental resources and younger workers who’re likely to die from alcoholism, violence, or war while never pursuing the skilled careers that Russia needs if it wants to create economic growth without oil in the future.
Appease your mind
@@motivationallizard6644 loooooooong boring crap!
@@kelvinosas6518it was well thought out, and historically relevent. If you don’t like history may I suggest a different video and comment section?
@@kelvinosas6518 lol wakanda
try use Enter Key to make your text more readable.
So well done, thank you!!
A very good video!👍
Very interesting. Thanks for citing your sources. Please do one on China.
Brilliant as always Avery! You rock History Scope!
Very nice and interesting video!
The root problems seems to be that despite the different government's differences, the few at the top consistently had all the money and power.
and few misguided sociopaths who have failed their nation miserably. looking at you putin.
Private property is not sacrosanct. If contracts are enforced and private property observed then Russia would become rich
Good video. Thx
Great info!
Nice gonna be a good hike tomorrow!
It takes me aback that Russian society worked practically the same way as the Antebellum American South and the shortlived Confederacy - poorer than what's nearby, agriculture takes up the entire economy, and it works all under the exploitation under slavery.
Interesting how it's just those kinds of elements that make an authoritarian, regimented, and hierarchal society. Even after rights are granted to former slaves.
Slavery was common in all of Europe it just ended much sooner in the west part of it. It just a shame that Russia while trying to chase modern economic and political trends always either arrives too late or pick the wrong one throughout the history.
Well the main difference is the Russians enslaved their own race rather than some other.
@@soulkeeper7796slavery wasn't actually all that common in Europe after the fall of Rome. The colonies were the location of a lot more slavery but Europe was pretty slave free for centuries.
Serfs are technically not slaves because they are not property, the land they live on is the property and they are conditionally tied to it.
A small difference but that distinction is very important after the black plague.
I was literally thinking the same thing, that’s why the American south especially those states like Mississippi who have dragged their feet through history, are some of the poorest third world like states in America.
@@geocrude1300 New York has a Third World like government with a kangaroo court system and holds political prisoners of the Biden Administration such as people who have worked in the Trump Administration. Seems like if you lose to your political opponent you go to jail, that is definitely a Third World feature! Russia is even more part of the Third World as it has a dictator. Dictatorships and undemocratic governments are definitely defining features of the Third World.
Excellent video! You covered a variety of reasons (e.g., geography inhibiting trade, slowness to specialize by shifting from agriculture to cities, misaligned incentives, lack of competition, poor protection of property rights since the govt can seize a business, etc.). I think you've done a great job of capturing the diverse reasons - World leaders everywhere could learn a lot about how to improve their economies by watching this video!
Excellent explanation and excellent animation!
Play hyper-authoritarian games, win hyper-authoritarian prizes...? Really great video, thanks!
You forcefully stop colleges from criticizing eizreeli g333no1de of palěșț1nias and have the audacity to use the those buzzwords as if your any better lmao
It has nothing to do with authoritarianism singapore for example is an authoritarian country yet they have a very high standards of living
@@u2beuser714 LOL, my mistake, to me, authority precludes a high standard of living, regardless of financial circumstances... I guess Singapore is indeed rich, unlike Russia.
But I would choose "vat of acid" for my home over such cruel places...
It doesn't have anything to do with hyper authoritarianism. It has everything to do with geography and foreign hostility.
@@KolyaUrtz hostility towards foreigner *
Corruption, there saved you 44 min!
Absolutely brilliant. Thanks.
Russia's share of the worldwide weapon's market has fallen off a cliff since Putin started his super duper special military operation
Damn Avery’s been on that grind lately
Outstanding video.👏
Great job History Scope.
Now, finally, Russia could stop being poor... But there was a problem. (X5)
St Petersburg is ice-free at least half of the year, not "a couple of months a year".
Thank you, so intressting
Hello - I do enjoy your videos and find them pretty informative. I am a professor of Russian at a U.S. university. Let me please make one small correction. Naturally, the level of fluency and competence in the Russian language among both the Jewish, as well as the German speaking communities would depend on a number of factors, the most important of which would be which time period we are talking about, how long the individual and or family had been in Russia, and to what extent they lived isolated or not from the wider Russian speaking society. I would say the earlier, both in terms of year, as well as length of time the individual and or family had been in Russia, the more likely it was that those in these groups would have had somewhat limited fluency in Russian. As time went by, however, these groups became less isolated and more exposed to Russian society, especially under the Soviets, with forced collectivizations, and the mass-deportations to Kazakhstan and Siberia of the German speaking Russians (most of whom came to Russia in the 17th century, at Catherine the Great's (herself a German) express invitation. Over time, these peoples were further and further integrated, and today you would hard pressed to find a singe Russian Jew or German-speaking Russian who did not speak absolutely flawless Russian. Just to finish, both of these communities still boast numbers in the millions, although sizeable percentages, if not the majority, no longer live in Russia, but have long since emigrated abroad, most notably to Israel, Germany and to the United States.
I'm Russian, I think it's largely because of the collectivist mentality left from the Soviet Union times. People rarelly start their own business, especially outside SPB and MSK, many don't even think they are capable of doing it. Those who managed to snatch the Soviet wealth (factories, resources) were not interested in value added production, they simply sold raw materials and parked the money in Cyprus, UK, Israel, US.
But it slowly improving, people younder than 30 do start new businesses, old oligarchy was pushed out of Russia because of the war and sanctions, only state owned oligarchy remained. I see improvements in small cities as well (more cars), people are buying electric scooters which cost x3 of a traditional bycicle.
of course, by propaganda corruption is nothing. Maybe stop propaganda?
Would it be the case that if you started a new business, gangsters, or people connected to the government might try to steal it from you?
@@John-qd5of That's only possible for very large corporations - Lukoil, VK, Yandex, McDonald's etc. For small or medium sized businesses it is very unlikely.
by making the incomes of most people go to the few rich people... man, history really does rhyme huh
Excellent analysis
Nice, concise explanation. Perhaps oversimplified, but achieves the objective.
6:54 Not sure where you get those numbers. According to the historical world atlas by Cornelsen from 2004 in 1800 62 percent of Germans worked in agriculture.
Можно следующее видео "Почему Губка Боб - Квадратные Штаны?"
The most thorough video I've seen on Russia's economic history! Love the channel, keep up the great work!
hello. thank u for your great contribution to so sophisticated contents. And I highly recommend that u should dig into why China is not rich.
Great job.
Always a good day when a History Scope vid drops
Fantastic video, my guy. Always love when you upload a new one. Great explanation on this subject. Russia has absurd potential to be a self sufficient powerhouse but leadership is consistently awful.
I feel like there are some mistakes.
1) The Mongols did not unite Russians, they dealt the finishing blow to the Kievan Rus, which then broke apart. The Mongols did not care for the government, they just came to get their money and left again.
2) Serfs were not send to Siberia to colonize it. Generally Serfs were widespread in regions, where you can actually grow food and from the Caspian to the Pacific was/is no fertile farm land in Russia. Some Serfs were sent to Siberia as punishment.
3) The map from 1991 was a very poor choice to explain processes that already started after the Napoleonic Wars. During that time Russia had cities like Mariupol, and the river Neman. Around 1810 the Russian elite was convinced that an alliance with England was the natural course for Russia. Their main plan was to pay the English to ship their products into the world. The British however feared the Russians plan to invade India, so they saw Russia as a threat, even though Russia only started to develop plans for India in the 1840s, after and because England adopted a hostile stance towards Russia. A major reason why Russia could not sell products to the world.
4) The work on moving away from Serfdom was not a reaction to the lost Crimean War. Alexander I. already started to work (in secret) on reforms even before Napoleon's invasion. His problem was that to abolish Serfdom, he could not just order it with his absolutists rights, because then the nobles would kill him just like his predecessor, so a parliament was needed, but if he introduces a parliament, only serf-owners would populate it. And he could not get rid of serf-owners, because they fulfilled multiple tasks like commanding the military, collecting taxes, enforce the law etc and often one noble had multiple roles. Therefore his first goal was to slowly moving the nobility away from serfdom, which they did not want, because it would mean less money for them. In the end the secret got leaked and made the transition more difficult.
Maybe Baykov's paper is not a good source, since he even writes that he only introduces a hypothesis and does not have sufficient evidence. The other sources look okay though.
Quickly becoming my favorite RUclips history channel.
Jeez you went full Putin 🤣 "when the Mongols left"
In all fairness, this is a great video. Keep up the good work!
Indeed. One need just look at Putin's face to understand where the Mongols went... into Russian women.
Very, very good. Congratulation.
Why did you decide on the chess graphic on the left at 9:57? What is it supposed to represent, and who is which color? It is very confusing to me.
LETS GOO THE GOAT AVERY IS BACK BRO ❤❤❤❤
Just wanted to take a quick peek at the random video in my feed, and suddenly found my first history video that starts russian history from mongols instead of Rus. Well, fine I guess, I'll stay.
I love your videos, but the amount of ads in this one is ridiculous. Every chapter I get another ad, and it is much more frequent than any other video I've seen on RUclips
Please do a video about "why Romania is not rich".
Your videos are incredibly informative and I bet romanians who watch it will even learn new things about their nation.
No eastern European nations as of the present are “rich” as in the Western European sense, maybe except Czechia or Slovenia. But for the sake of comparison, Romania for example is much richer than Russia so you can’t say it isn’t. I’d say it definitely isn’t “wealthy” but it’s developed nonetheless
@@sikerslalatm3147 do you live in Romania?
I do and Romania is not a developed country at all, much less rich.
@@Anton43218 numbers big means country rich, mkay?
@@Anton43218 but Romanians richer Russians instead absence of oil, natural gas, gold etc
Because for much of its history it was very rural, Wallachia had no cities like Prague Warsaw or Pest.
Could you do this video about Brazil too?
Yes
@@HistoryScopeThank you for the response. Keep up the amazing work!
Brazil is completely other situation and history
@@redblacktichy7713 Which is why i asked for a video.
I don't want a country to be rich.
I want a country to be happy.
Russia can't achieve either no matter their ideology.
Then Russia should have whatever type of government they want or need. Some people think that democracy would solve those problems, while it doesn't solve problems in those democratic countries. @@arthas640
LMAO you think russians are happy?
@@arthas640 and they are far happier and better than the shit hole called the west today, at least they can define what a woman is, and don't subscribe to WEF bullshit
Well being rich means you can affrod things to be happy.
very nice
I have intense appreciation for the picket sign near 29:50 just saying " convincing message"
This video is amazingly brilliant.
A little something called Absolutist Monarchy followed by a Socialist Revolution
(I know it's more complicated than that)
Any form of control is still just control. Pretty simple
@@brianmartindale2221 Thats overly simplistic. Its like saying liberal democracy and illiberal democracies are the same when they are not lol
The socialist revolution actually made it the fastest growing economy in the 20th century, pulling most of its people out of desperate poverty, housing everyone with excellent free education etc.
What people think of when you say USSR is Russia in the 90's, which is absurd to me.
@@kristoffer3000 that's why I said it's more complicated than that
@@kristoffer3000 Tsarist Russia before WW1 was already on that path, fastest growing economy on the continent, this is what created fear in the mind of German making them want to start a war against Russia.
excellent video, earned a sub from me. Maybe Mexico could be worthy of a video like this?
“Anyone could be sent to the gulags, from the most brilliant rocket scientists to war heroes to the polish”
What did the poles ever do??
We wanted independence after WW2
They plundered Russia together with the Mongols of the 3rd century. Therefore, if you see a Pole who talks about the cruelty of the USSR, then remind him that the Poles of the 3rd century raided Russia and plundered it
@@user-qk9ip7dt8g 3rd century? Polish history starts around 10th century, and Russian history starts after the Mongols (or in 9th century if you count Kievan Rus, but that's more Ukrainian than Russian)
@@lobster-music of course, that's why you hate Ukrainians more than Russians, and Ukrainians slaughtered Poles during World War II and Ukrainians hate Poles more than Russians. You can tell these tales in the West. Russians know their history and the history of Poles. You can pretend to be innocent in front of the West, the Russians remember everything and will never forgive the Poles until the Poles repent of the atrocities of the 13th-15th century.
@@user-qk9ip7dt8g Pole Will most likely remind about Molotov - Ribbentrop pact and what USSR did in Poland. Anyone pro Russia nowdays forgets how USSR was on germanys bandwagon for half of World War II, choosing only parts of history which makes Russia or USSR 'good guy'. Delusional people
Please talk about why Brazil isn't rich, and compare it with Mexico and Chile too! The other two rich countries in Latin America (unless you count Puerto Rico a country)
I've seen several people ask for this. I'll put it on the list
Very clear, concise and informative. Well done!
History repeating itself with Tsar Putin the first.
Russia history is tragic.
Wonderful breakdown of a complicated topic, as always
Video is repeatedly, "Russia tried something that could've worked, but corruption, favourtism, and general authoritarianism caused it to fail."
I don't think Russia can stand as a unified entity without authoritarianism.
If the economy performs poorly and ethnic minorities decide to leave the federation?
We already saw how brutal Chechnya was
@@okene SO WHAT?! Almost ALL countries that LEFT ussr/ru empire are in much better shape now than under kremlin's rule. WHY should those ethnic groups suffer so that average ru person doesn't become poor? Muscovites abuse those minorities, steal their resources and waste them. It's a bad deal for them.
I am supportive for DISSOLUTION of ru into many ethnic-states. Freedom for native siberians!
"We already saw how brytal Chechnya was" - no. We saw how ruZZia was brutal in exterminating Chechen civilians/partisants fighting for freedom.
Look at Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Lativia and Estonia - they WERE parts of ru, but now they are developing and becoming rich. ONLY thx to LEAVING the "federation".
@@trollfake9578don't read what this pro Ukrainian radical tries to tell ya. He is simply beyond salvation
@@trollfake9578people who say RUZZIA shouldn't be taken seriously since you obviously don't have a clue what you're talking about
@@iljenshumilin467 I know what I am talking about.
Almost all post-soviet states are NOW in much better shape than during soviet times. Because Moscow was a parasite draining wealth from them.
“High tech weapons industry” lmao 😂 they burned that shit up
Its hilarious how they used to at least claim to be rugged, easy to maintain, easy to use, and reliable but instead it's proven to be unreliable, finicky, and hard to maintain. It's also been sold as easy to build and cheap but since Russia can't manufacture shit that makes their stuff hard to replace and not particularly cheap.
@@arthas640statistically they are manufacturing 10x the ammunition you produce in the west,their industries prices aren’t inflated like in the us and their jets actually work lol….aren’t you plainly projecting based on ignorance? I am surprised by the delusion and tunnel vision you are displaying
@arthas640. When it was still the USSR, many of their good engineers were from Ukraine.
@@slimjimnyc270you're acting as if the vast majority of ukrainians didn't have russian relatives or didn't have russian origin in the family.
@@Prushinthespiritthe vast majority of Ukrainians also seem to act that way, on account of those relatives not opposing Putin’s genocide
I'm an aspiring politician from the 18th century, it seems to me that Russia needs a change in leadership that I can easily initiate by amassing an army and invading it, as it is too fragmented and its general populace too unmotivated to put up much of a fight.
I appreciate your insight, wise 21st century scholar!
Lack of personal freedom and economic autonomy.
20:06 Nice
Nice
TL;DR: Corrupt people in power.
Ty for this video.
Corruption can kill progress and growth better than any other strain. It can turn prosperity into a desert and happiness into rebellion. Russia is a centuries-long case-study in this, and they've never really fixed the problems. The US has struggled for a couple centuries, but we've at least had periods of cracking down on it and pushing against corruption.
Was bizzare to hear essentially what is happening with my country in 21 had already happened in Russia for over centuries
what is your country?
Brilliantly explained