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There’s an alternate history where Russia didn’t go communist.In 1911, a man named Pyotr Stolypin was Prime Minister of Russia. Staunchly anti-war and traditionalist, he was nevertheless also an energetic reformer. He suppressed violent revolutionaries, but gave peasants their own land to farm. He was the path to a peaceful capitalist reformation in Russia. Lenin hated him, and called him the hangman-in-chief.Then he was assassinated. Historians still debate whether it was a conspiracy or a lone gunman. But ...