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In the Dictators Handbook, Bruce de Mesquita argues that Russian revolution was successful because the Czar repealed the Vodka tax, and thus ran out of money to pay his guards and police. How much credence do historians give that theory.

by /u/Blacksmith_Most in /r/AskHistorians

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