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The industrialisation drive began a profound transformation of Soviet society. In the words of Moshe Lewin, this was a ‘society in flux’. Peasants moved into the towns in large numbers; a smaller number of townsfolk moved to the countryside to assist in managing the new kolkhozy and sovkhozy; at every level of urban society, people changed their jobs with unprecedented frequency. An education drive accompanied the industrialisation drive.
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Davies, R.W. (1996). Urban Society in Transition. In: Crisis and Progress in the Soviet Economy, 1931–1933. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05935-5_17
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