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Stalin was a visionary in ways few people remember. In 1952, he published Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR - one of his final works and almost a blueprint for moving the Soviet Union from socialism toward communism. And some of what he proposed sounds remarkably futuristic even today. While much of the industrialized world was still organized around the eight-hour working day - with 40- and 48-hour weeks still part of the international debate - Stalin was already looking beyond both. He proposed eventually reducing the Soviet working day first to six hours, then to just five. So people would have enough free time to educate themselves, develop their abilities and participate more fully in society. And that wasn’t all. Stalin envisioned systematically raising living standards and at least doubling workers’ real wages. A five-hour working day, twice the real income, more time for education, family, hobbies and life beyond work. In 1952! Stalin died the following year.