That seems inconsistent, but history is full of such paradoxes. Capitalist England was so far in advance of other countries, that she had to trail behind them.
Pedants think that the dialectic is an idle play of the mind.
In reality it only reproduces the process of evolution, which lives and moves by way of contradictions. The first volume of this work should have explained why that historically belated democratic regime which replaced tzarism proved wholly unviable. The present volumes are devoted to the coming to power of the Bolsheviks. Here too the fundamental thing is the narrative. In the facts themselves the reader ought to find sufficient support for the inferences.