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In the journal Critique ( Journal of Socialist Theory ), Hillel H. Ticktin argues that the new Soviet rulers found themselves unable to use the market to control and exploit the peasantry and workers.

So, instead, they used vast coercion, in the form of forced collectivisation, enabling them to both control the peasantry and to create an influx of new labour for rapid industrial expansion.

Unprecedented levels of repression prevented any collective resistance.

But, with little fear of unemployment and little monetary incentive to work harder, individual workers were still able to resist management interference.

Workers also indulged in less-productive working, absenteeism and alcoholism.