там же очень и объяснено, почему этот прорыв был возможен только после революции
"Was Russian development robust enough to have closed the gap with western Europe if 1917 had not intervened? The possibility cannot be excluded because one country, Japan, did just that. It grew from a Russian income level in 1913 to a west European level in 1989. Japan, however, was unique, and there is little reason to believe that Russia would have been at the top of the world league table rather than in the middle or the bottom. Japanese growth was based on institutional modernisation that exceeded anything imagined by the Tsars."
