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- The term "Stalin's revolution" has been used for this transition, and that conveys well its violent, destructive, and utopian character. (en)
- It had been the leaders' hope that the peasantry could be made to pay most of the costs of industrialization; the collectivization of peasant agriculture that accompanied the first five-year plan was intended to achieve this effect by forcing peasants to accept low state prices for their goods. (en)
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