Well I am not calling it essay because at first sight the text seemed quite encyclopedic to me and the word rant refers to form not content     Agree with Mikka I see that someone is making an attempt to salvage portions of the essay I dont think that thats necessary since just about all the points brought up in it are already better covered in more specialized articles particularly collectivisation in the USSR    As I said above I pared down the essayrant in the Rise to Power section Mikka removed the same editors essay about Collectivization quite rightly as its well covered in the relevant article I also said that its debatable if it needs to be there at all even in the pareddown version Im reluctant to remove someones whole contribution especially when they are a new editor as I dont want to discourage new editors but if the consensus feeling is that it should all go then so be it Incidentally regarding form when I looked at the markup behind the essay it showed that the editor had separated it into paragraphs by indenting the separate paras rather than leaving blanklines so it was just a case of a neweditor not being familiar with the correct way to format paragraphs and ending up with one long para hence looking like a rant Also new editors tend not to be familiar with the idea of keeping to the salient points and wikilinking to indepth articles