How come the USSR didn't repress political liberalisation to survive like the PRC

>>17806298 (OP)
The forces of capital are inevitable

>>17806298 (OP)
Because China transitioned to a market economy to distract its citizens with bread and circuses

>>17806343
As opposed to becoming circus like late USSR and modern russia

>>17806298 (OP)
The most common argument I hear is that the party bureaucracy had become too corrupt and entrenched to make the economic reforms. I'm not sure why it was different in China where the party went with Deng Xiaoping's reforms without much resistance.

FWIW China is relatively more liberal today than the Soviet Union was. I'm not totally sure about that but just squinting at it and reading about the history of the USSR a bit. Like just in terms of expression or in publishing.

>>17806298 (OP)
>How come the USSR didn't repress political liberalisation to survive like the PRC

It has to do with the Volkisch theory of race as prescribed by Hitler, who predicted the fall of the USSR in a lifetime in the year 1923-remarkably accurate. State and government is a function of racial character.

>>17806391
>I'm not sure why it was different in China where the party went with Deng Xiaoping's reforms without much resistance.
Because Deng was one of the party elders and was there from the very beginning.

>>17806342
Why PRC today support Russia?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amur_Annexation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Amur_anti-Chinese_pogroms

>>17806298 (OP)
Gorbechev was naive

>>17806424
they hated soviets for being in charge of communism instead of them, theyre happy russia being capitalist makes them the uncontested communists so they dropped all their beefs with the soviets including border disputes.

>>17806424
Manchus suffered disproportionately in the Boxer rebellion compared to Han. Most massacre and rape victims of the Eight Nation Alliance were Manchus.