> Not that the USSR was a postcolonial nation, but I suppose it did during
> Stalin in a roundabout way by providing the grain that the USSR sold abroad
> to finance the first Five-Year Plan. (Starving a whole lot of people to
> death in the process.)
>
It was also successful at moving workers from the village to the city, where they were more productive. (This was happening at breakneck speed anyway, partially as a pendulum swing back from the ruralization of the civil war. Collectivization just made it faster.)