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Essentially, there were two issues with "controlling production directly":
First, there was the issue of what Lenin called "culture," i.e. the educational and administrative experience that was required for workers to take an increasingly active part in the affairs of their own factories. Throughout the 1920s-40s there were various efforts towards this end in terms of speaking up as to defects in production or arbitrary behavior by management, participation in drafting economic plans, participation in the administration of trade unions, shop committees, etc., and so on. Note that a great many Soviet workers, especially during the initial Five-Year Plans, were overwhelmingly comprised of former inhabitants of the countryside who were in no position to handle stuff like accounting and management on their own (although, as I said, efforts were made to get them involved in such activities and to educate them in these subjects.)
Second, "workers' control" as some of its proponents advocate it does not actually equate to the socialization of production on a national/international scale. In effect it ends up pitting enterprises against one-another on the basis of essentially capitalist competition (as occurred in Yugoslavia.)
Also, another handy compilation (this time comprised of Lenin's works): https://archive.org/details/OnWorkersControlAndTheNationalisationOfIndustry