stakhanovite Concepts

Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1945-1956

by Anne Applebaum · 30 Oct 2012 · 934pp · 232,651 words

Stakhanov as well as Stakhanov streets and Stakhanov squares. A Ukrainian town was renamed Stakhanov in his honor. Heroes of Labor were renamed Stakhanovites after him too, and Stakhanovite competitions were held all over the Soviet Union. The Eastern European communists would have known the Stakhanov cult very well, and some of

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received unexpected perks, as one female Polish textile worker remembered: In 1950 or 1952 … I don’t remember exactly … I was chosen as the best Stakhanovite in my factory. I did 250 percent of the quota … One day I went to work, of course in my daily clothes, because you do

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not go to work in Sunday clothes. And they gave me a ticket saying that I am going to the Stakhanovite ball. I said I was not going because I was not dressed up, but they ordered me to go. So I went with the others

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competitions” never made the economy more productive, in the Soviet Union or anywhere else. The economic historian Paul Gregory reckons that in the USSR the Stakhanovite movement had no impact on labor productivity whatsoever: the cost of the expensive prizes and higher wages for the

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Stakhanovites canceled out whatever value industry might have gained from the superhuman effort of individual workers.62 In political terms, the movement’s impact was more

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USSR, Stalin had used the shock workers as a tool to replace the Soviet Union’s technical and managerial class. At a speech to the Stakhanovite Congress in 1935, he had called on the gathered shock workers to “smash the conservatism of some of our engineers and technicians” and to “give

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were designed to get everyone to work harder for the same wage. That hostility is reflected in the official biography of Jószef Kiszlinger, a Hungarian Stakhanovite who came into direct conflict with older workers: “Sometimes he worked with a different knife and managed to overfulfill his quota. The older ones attacked

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rapidly, and the party had to integrate thousands of inexperienced and mostly rural laborers into the workforce. In Budapest, Szabad Nép declared that “in the Stakhanovite movement a new kind of worker has appeared: the first signs of the new communist working class have emerged … From the practice of their everyday

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.1, 13.1, 18.1 Heiligenstadt Heine, Heinrich Heller, Ágnes Hennecke, Adolf Herf, Jeffrey Hermann, Imre Hernádi, Lajos Heroes of Labour movement: see Stakhanovite movement Herrnstadt, Rudolf, 2.1, 8.1, 18.1 Herzberg, Klemens Hesse Hiss, Alger, 1.1, 3.1, 12.1 Hitler, Adolf death of, 2

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.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 10.1, 10.2 Schabowski, Gônter, 17.1, 18.1 Schmidt, Mária Schneider, Ulrich “shockworker movement”: see Stakhanovite movement Schöpflin, Gyula Schumacher, Kurt, 9.1, 9.2 Schumann, Erich Schwanitz, Wolfgang Second World War, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4

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, Iosif; Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact; Red Army; Soviet communist ideology Spanish Civil War, 3.1, 12.1 Spychalski, General Marian, 12.1, 12.2 Stakhanov, Alexi Stakhanovite movement (also “shockworker movement” or Heroes of Labour movement), 13.1, 15.1 Stalin, Iosif cult of personality, 3.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13

The Story of Work: A New History of Humankind

by Jan Lucassen · 26 Jul 2021 · 869pp · 239,167 words

members of Komsomol, the communist youth organization, who had to set an example through their actions. 16. ‘A glorious production model’ worker proudly shows her Stakhanovite-like diploma and medal to her excited daughter and two sons; in the background is the factory where she works, China, 1954. 17. Assembly line

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People’s Commissar for Heavy Industry Ordzhonikidze – started to report about this record and, within a fortnight, coined the term ‘Stakhanovite movement’, and ‘recordmania’ swept the country, peaking in November 1935. Stakhanovite brigades sprang up, assembled among workers who had already distinguished themselves, and closely resembled the shock brigades of the late

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1920s, followed by the All-Union Conference of Stakhanovites and Stakhanovite schools (on-the-job training courses by leading Stakhanovites). This movement appealed especially to young males, whereas women were less likely to become Stakhanovites than men: Let’s say that I have a mother and a wife

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, in this case, I and my wife can both work quite easily, put in all the work-days we are supposed to, and thereby become Stakhanovites. But you on the other hand are married, your wife had several children and there is no grandmother in the house to take care of

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them. Then, your wife cannot work very much . . . But my wife, who has an older woman in the house, can be a Stakhanovite and get a little suckling pig.148 But those who did, like Pasha Angelina, the first female tractor brigade leader, attained rock star status. Her

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dear Stalin, Oh, thank you and thank you again For Soviet power. Knit for me, dear mama A dress of fine red calico. With a Stakhanovite I will go strolling, With a backward one I don’t want to go. No wonder that she complained to the Tenth Komsomol Congress that

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World War somewhere in between these extremes. Azerbaijani cotton worker and politician Basti Bagirova at the cotton harvest in 1950, the fifteenth anniversary of the Stakhanovite movement. 7 THE CHANGING SIGNIFICANCE OF WORK, 1800 TO NOW The crucial changes to labour relations in the last two centuries, described in the previous

The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite

by Daniel Markovits · 14 Sep 2019 · 976pp · 235,576 words

idleness as insulting and even degrading and why the working rich commit to epidemic industry that the pursuit of mere wealth cannot rationalize. Today’s Stakhanovites are the one-percenters. POVERTY AND WEALTH Every economy may be described in terms of two kinds of inequality: high-end, which concerns the gap

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revolution did not arise spontaneously. Instead, they were all—every one—generated from within meritocracy, by and for the newly available supply of super-skilled, Stakhanovite workers coming out of America’s newly meritocratic schools and universities. The financial instruments through which corporate raiders accomplish their takeovers, like the other financial

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conceit of shareholder activism depends on deploying the increased elite managerial capacity that gives corporate takeovers their economic foundation. It requires a ready supply of Stakhanovite, super-skilled top managers who are willing and able effectively to exercise the vast powers of command that running a firm directly (without relying on

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on purifying elite institutions of nonmeritocratic biases—on diversity and inclusion—progressives dismiss elite discontent as luxury’s disappointment. For progressives, hypercompetitive admissions tournaments or Stakhanovite work hours become really wrong only when they discriminate against minorities or working mothers, or mask the operation of insider networks and cultural capital, rather

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unrelated, in fact share a common source—an excessive concentration of human capital and industry in an ever-narrowing elite that condemns the rich to Stakhanovite overwork and the rest to imposed idleness. A more equal social and economic order would therefore make everyone—both the rich and the rest—better

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labor law regimes that limited weekly hours, elite workers—managers and professionals—insistently exempted themselves from labor regulation, including on dignitary grounds that presaged the Stakhanovite norms that now govern the superordinate working class. See, e.g., Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, 29 U.S.C. §§ 206, 207 & 213 (1938

Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, From the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First

by Frank Trentmann · 1 Dec 2015 · 1,213pp · 376,284 words

was altogether immune from the siren call. Late Stalinism dangled the ideal of domestic comfort and home ownership before its new elite, the over-achieving Stakhanovites. In a typical piece of middle-brow fiction from 1950 Russia, Dimitri returns home and muses about his new status in life: ‘Homeowner! How the

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told to enjoy tennis, silk stockings and jazz by Antonin Ziegler’s Czech band. Red Army officials learnt to dance the tango. Heroic workers, the Stakhanovites, received gramophones and a Boston suit (for him) and a crêpe de Chine dress (for her). A Soviet House of Fashions opened its doors in

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phonographs in front of workers would make them work harder. ‘We want to lead a cultured life,’ Party leader Miron Djukanov, a miner, told fellow Stakhanovites in 1935: ‘[W]e want bicycles, pianos, phonographs, records, radio sets, and many other articles of culture.’59 Greater productivity, in turn, would allow socialism

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. Civilizing the socialist self involved a shared ensemble of goods and habits, not difference. Everyone would climb up the same ladder of cultural progress, with Stakhanovites leading the way. Champagne would flow for all loyal workers. Recent research suggests that in the 1930s the gap between workers and the elite did

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the Good Life in Stalin’s Russia (Oxford, 2003); and Victor Buchli, An Archaeology of Socialism (Oxford, 1999). 59. At the All-Union conference of Stakhanovites, quoted in Lewis H. Siegelbaum, Stakhanovism and the Politics of Productivity in the USSR, 1935–41 (Cambridge, 1988), at 228. For Western Europe, see Charles

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, 545–6; material culture 293–6; media 329; oil 330; politics of productivity 294; radios 293, 294, 295; shops/shopping 293, 295–6, 330, 334; Stakhanovites 245, 293, 294; Stalinism see Stalinism; state subsidies 330; teenagers 330; tourism 327; ‘uninterrupted work weeks’ 475 space: shops and public space 194, 198, 207

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‘sport for all’ 545; televised 365; US boom in spectator sport 463 sportswear 201, 320 Squarciafico, Marquis 29 Sri Lanka/Ceylon 79, 146, 375, 541 Stakhanovites 245, 293, 294 Stalin, Joseph 122–3, 292, 293, 294 Stalinism 245, 246, 274, 292–6, 328 stamp money 408 standard of living 9, 58

To the Edge of the World: The Story of the Trans-Siberian Express, the World's Greatest Railroad

by Christian Wolmar · 4 Aug 2014 · 323pp · 94,406 words

railways were working anywhere near their real limit, a conflict that was almost inevitable . . . the two weapons [in government hands] were the purge and the Stakhanovite movement.’18 Kaganovich had more blood on his hands than almost any other of his contemporary Communist leaders, having organized forced grain confiscations during the

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easily result in the hapless local manager being accused of being a ‘wrecker’ bent on destroying socialist society, the worst possible accusation. Under Kaganovich, too, Stakhanovite efforts were encouraged to improve productivity. Named after a miner who supposedly carved out more than 100 tons of coal in a single shift, which

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was, in fact, an obvious charade, Stakhanovite efforts were imposed on the railways, but to terrible effect. Specially selected train drivers were set up to ensure their locomotives pulled greater loads, or

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, 164, 214 Southwestern Railway, 50 Sovetskaya Gavan, 231, 233, 248 Soviet Sociology, 237 Soviets, 179 Sretensk, 38, 41, 88–9, 101, 108, 121–2, 168 Stakhanovite movement, 222–3 Stalin, Joseph, 10, 177, 215, 224–6, 229–30, 235 his death, 226, 234, 242 escape route from Moscow, 226 industrialization under

One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War

by Michael Dobbs · 3 Sep 2008 · 631pp · 171,391 words

Cuba could do was order a crash program to bring all the missiles to combat readiness as quickly as possible. Soviet soldiers were accustomed to Stakhanovite labor campaigns, organized bursts of mass enthusiasm designed to "fulfill and overfulfill the plan." Fortunately, the R-12 regiments were almost at full strength. By

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-2s over U.S. north vs. south defense against weakness of in World War II Spain Spanish-American War Special Group (Augmented) spetsnaz alerts Sputnik Stakhanovite labor campaigns Stalin, Joseph World War II and Standard Oil of New Jersey State Department, U.S. decoys from Dobrynin summoned to "further action" and

Reset: How to Restart Your Life and Get F.U. Money: The Unconventional Early Retirement Plan for Midlife Careerists Who Want to Be Happy

by David Sawyer · 17 Aug 2018 · 572pp · 94,002 words

you need do is devise a plan and stick to it. Mutual funds: actively managed So, without further ado, let’s move on to the Stakhanovite workhorse and secret weapon of the RESET investing plan: the humble mutual fund. There are two types of mutual funds: actively managed and passively managed

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-year-plus) stock investment strategy, as Warren Buffett does. Don’t try to time the market; set and forget. Let that globally diversified low-cost Stakhanovite bunch of index funds do 95%-plus of your portfolio’s heavy lifting. Keep an eye on the charges. For example, towards the middle of

Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture

by Marvin Harris · 1 Dec 1974 · 206pp · 67,030 words

, and consume less than anybody else. Prestige is their only reward. The big man can be described as a worker-entrepreneur—the Russians call them “Stakhanovites”—who renders important services to society by raising the level of production. As a result of the big man’s craving for status, more people

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than we do—without benefit of a single labor union—because their ecosystems cannot tolerate weeks and months of intensive extra effort. Among the Bushmen, Stakhanovite personalities who would run about getting friends and relatives to work harder by promising them a big feast would constitute a definite menace to society

Rush Hour: How 500 Million Commuters Survive the Daily Journey to Work

by Iain Gately · 6 Nov 2014 · 352pp · 104,411 words

to work in Russia in the 1950s and 1960s were members of the elite – artists with international reputations, Olympic champions, military and party officials and Stakhanovites*4 who could jump the queues and get a car straight away. Second-hand cars were equally hard to come by for the average worker

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disapproval and the general absence of facilities notwithstanding, commuting crept into the Soviet Union in the last decade of its ‘great stagnation’ (1964–85). The Stakhanovites of freedom of movement appeared in the main in small cities. They were categorized as ‘young, low-skilled workers, occupying positions requiring low qualifications and

Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty

by Bradley K. Martin · 14 Oct 2004 · 1,509pp · 416,377 words

upon the hard work and enthusiasm of those subjects who felt grateful for the end of the old order and the dawn of the new. Stakhanovite campaigns urged industrial workers to sacrifice for productivity. One highly publicized group of locomotive factory workers marched off as “storm-troopers” and reopened an abandoned

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stood.”12 When the time came to transform the vision into reality, Kim turned the capital’s reconstruction into a nationwide “battle,” in the Soviet Stakhanovite pattern, with college students and office workers pressed into service to keep the building sites humming day and night.13 Other “battles” ensued, to rebuild