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And since Western techniques were constantly being improved. this was not an operation that could ever be completed unless and until such an indigenous class came into existence. And this in turn implied the existence of a certain social stability and a certain measure of freedom for the artisans. Since all this was lacking. new technicians had to be imported with each new generation. On the occasions when Russian xenophobia won the day. and the foreigners were excluded or driven out. Russian technology immediately fell badly behind that prevailing in more civilized lands. When Lenin seized power in Russia as the head of a small minority party with a conspiratorial past. he was confronted with two. among many. problems.