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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present second year of Russia's Second Five-Year Plan the State estimated last week that Soviet heavy industry will produce nearly as much in October, November and December 1935 as it produced during the entire year 1928, first year of the First Five-Year Plan. ¶"Stakhanovism" was added to the Soviet vocabulary as Dictator Stalin's big-nosed Commissar of Heavy Industry Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze made national heroes of one Comrade Stakhanov, 22, and five other young Donetz Basin coal miners. Accustomed to getting out five tons of coal in each six-hour shift with a Soviet automatic cutting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Red Notes | 9/30/1935 | See Source »

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