The potential indicators of a nation's industrialization and modernization are numerous, but they are also highly consistent. The conditions of life can, of course, be the cause of industrialization, driving a people to overcome their lack of natural resources or numbers, and to strive to enhance their power, prestige, or wealth by adopting a highly concentrated program of industrialization. This model has been utilized to explain the rapid industrialization of Japan, and sometimes is also applied to the forced industrialization which Stalin pressed upon the Russian and other Soviet peoples. Among the late industrializers the case of Japan is most dramatic from an economic point of view. Objective indicators of sociocultural and sociopolitical conditions have been less systematically collected than the physical and material variety, partly because they are less easy to measure, but possibly because many governments find that they raise sensitive and even embarrassing issues.