Status Updates From 斯大林：權力的悖論，1878-1928

Onto Chapter 4: Constitutional Autocracy

Tsar Nicholas II’s need for autocratic power reveals its dire consequences for the first time.

“Modernity, in other words, was not a sociological process - moving from ‘traditional’ to ‘modern’ society - but a geopolitical process: a matter of acquiring what it took to join the great powers, or fall victim to them.

Also Kotkin dabbles in light “what-if” on the final page, which I dislike.