by Chris Doss
Mainly that was me writing off the cuff while trying to meet a deadline and working through a hangover. It wiould be better to say something like "the shape of Soviet society was determined first and foremost by the need to develop an agrarian country. It succeeded. The rest of teh stuff is fluff." ^^^^^^ CB: Why was there a need to develop the agrarian country ? People had been surviving in agrarian societies for millenia.
