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A common phrase in this forum is "Pulling a Meiji" for when a country industrializes quickly and reforms its government in the 19th century.

However not every country had the circumstances to do this under beneficial circumstances.

What countries could have "Pulled a Stalin" instead, crash-industrializing in the 20th century by confiscating and selling the agricultural output of one unlucky region of the country, and then using this budget surplus to fund mass industrial buildup?

Did this require communist revolution and collectivization to happen, or could a royalist or other authoritarian state do this as well?
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