Soviet Historiography

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I remember some book with Pandora's Box in the title or subtitle, and it talked about the USSR as the "rule of engineers", comparing it to the rule of soldiers (aristocracy, monarchies...) and rule of businessmen (capitalists).
It was the ideological look, the dream scenario of how things should've been if everything went according to plan.
Try to find that, I can't find it right now myself.

Also on the ideology/commie side of things, every intelligent communist supported knew Russia can't do it.
The idea is you go from a capitalist state to a communist one. You need a decades or even centuries long capitalist rule before the communist rule, to set up factories and production and have a big economy.
Russia didn't have capitalists at all. It went from "rule of soldiers" to "rule of engineers", and was poor.
The idea was for Russia to setup the revolution in Germany, and for Germany to become the real communist nest, and support Russia with factory, specialists, academics, etc. That failed, when mercenaries and volunteers in Germany crushed their revolution during WWI, and basically even before WWI had ended, the communist revolution had failed, since it only won in places with zero capitalist, and no framework or infrastructure.

This saw Trotsky saying they need to conquer more advanced land, conquer other people to continue the revolution there.
On the other side, Stalin said they need to fake some period of capitalism, by having the state be a capitalist for a few generations, industrializing rapidly, providing free education and so on, and then move to communism once its done.
They had a fight, one was exiled and died, the other died before he could complete his plan, and the rest is a slow decay, a ship thats too large to sink fast rotting as its corpse floats.