Many were willing to suffer a "few years of hardship for the promised land of a better society."1 Posters, signs, books and radio programmes extolled the virtues of hard work and rapid industrialization so that workers were bombarded with Stalin's thoughts and ideas and beliefs from every direction, almost forcing them to see things the way he did and no other. ...

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