Russian industrialization started well before the USSR came to power. The Trans Siberian Railway for example first opened in 1904. The locomotive’s boilers, engines and some other components were built in Saint Petersburg, industry was alive and well at the time.
Arguably it was the new power blocks associated with industry that destabilized Tsarist Russia, not that WWI helped.
Arguably it was the new power blocks associated with industry that destabilized Tsarist Russia, not that WWI helped.