But on November 7, 1924, the revolution’s seventh anniversary, Stalin visited the Moscow factory Dynamo and offered a glimpse into his deeper thinking. “I wish for the workers of Dynamo, and the workers of all Russia,” he wrote in the visitors’ book, “that our industry expands, in order that the number of proletarians in Russia in the near term climbs to 20-30 million, that collective agriculture flourishes in villages and subordinates to its influence private farming.”
