Homeostasis of Human Society
So I was thinking about Russia, right, and between Imperial Russia, the Soviet Union, and modern Capitalist 'Democracy' Russia, you have three wildly different governmental structures and ideologies, but somehow they all seem more like each other than they do like anything else, implying some kind of homeostatic mechanism that keeps a society more or less in equilibrium even as you poke at it, for better or worse.
@Angle Isn't it because there was no fundamental change in who had the power? Some heads rolled during each regime change, but I assume some families stayed in control of key parts of the infrastructure. This plus the cultural tendency to authoritarianism present in all three regimes (tsarism, soviet federation, republic) seems to indicate a rigid political context.
@Angle @kravietz Thank you for the added details. I also believe that the political, economical and military pressure the US has been putting on any remotely "communist" country has contributed to the emergence of authoritarian governments as the most effective way to resist this pressure, at the expense of the people. And this was part of the plan to destabilize these governments and replace them with US-friendly ones, not necessarily democratic ones.
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If you read Lenin's "State and the Revolution" (1917) it's quite clear that the dictatorship has been the plan from the very beginning, and it was quite extensively supported by quotes from Marx and Engels.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ch01.htm#s4
