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Stakhanovism and the Politics of Productivity in the USSR, 1935-1941 (Paperback, Revised)
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Stakhanovism and the Politics of Productivity in the USSR, 1935-1941 (Paperback, Revised)
Series: Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies
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This is a study in English of a major and instructive episode in
the history of the Soviet Union. The Stakhanovite movement
commemorated the mining of 102 tons of coal by Aleksei Stakhanov on
August 30-1, 1935, and it was an important symbol by which the
state urged workers to achieve greater productivity. As Lewis
Siegelbaum demonstrates, Stakhanovism can be used to explore the
social relations within Soviet industry at a critical stage in its
development. In this sense, Stakhanovism was an important symbol of
a shift in official priorities from construction of the means of
production via increasing inputs of labor, to intensive use of
capital and labor. Siegelbaum argues that Stakhanovism evolved
neither as the product of a master plan nor of spontaneity from
below. It developed in response to economic and political
contingencies, local initiatives and inertia, and the maneuvering
of workers and their bosses alike. Through an interpretation of
Stakhanovites as models of the New Soviet Man, this book advances a
unique contribution to our understanding of Soviet life in the
1930s.
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