It may seem odd, now, but the fact is that some 25,000 recruits, initially, at least, did go willingly into the Russian wilderness (laying actual and physical cornerstones, ultimately, for the Gulag system) - in obeisance to the V.I. Lenin-Karl Marx vision of a communist utopia.
University of Toronto Professor of History, Lynne Viola, reportedly "the first Western scholar to gain access to the Soviet state archives on collectivization" writes about it here in a 1989 volume entitled, The Best Sons of the Fatherland, Workers in the Vanguard of Soviet Collectivization.
A rebellion (too late) would come amidst the turmoil of the 1920s and early 1930s.
And that has been documented by the same author/researcher (1998) here.
Lessons learned?
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