Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
Late-czarist Russia was on the upswing economically until they got too invested in the fate of Serbia and got themselves ensnared in global war. — PolitiTweet.org
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion
The Soviet Union was shitty in many ways, but the fact that it managed to reverse Russia's multi-century decline fo… https://t.co/z8zF77WIih