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Russia was considered a backwards country because they were not trying to become industialized, they still used serfs as a labor base, and they censored every article of reading printed. Until well after 1920 Russia was very backward. Literacy rates were very low, for example.
In the early 20th century, Japan stunned the western world by defeating Russia.

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