Word: stakhanovism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stakhanov movement prepares the way for advancing from Socialism to Communism. In a Socialist society every one works according to his ability and receives in return not according to his needs but according to what he has produced for society. This means that the cultural and technical level of the working class is still not high, that a difference still exists between mental and physical labor...
Stakhanovite Celebrations. Workers of the World may not agree that the speed-up of Alexei Stakhanov is a good thing for the proletariat, but they unite in applauding the medals and the motor car Dictator Stalin has given Stakhanov, the silk lingerie and perfume he bought in Moscow for his wife. Individual Stakhanovites all receive fabulously high pay -the question suspiciously asked by Soviet workers being how long such exaggerated wages will be paid after any great number of workers have been induced to speed up. Afraid that "Stakhanovism" is in fact a continent-wide swindle of the proletariat...
Here & there some bright Alexei Stakhanov may have a bright idea but in most Russian factories last week correspondents found that Stakhanovism means primarily overexertion. In a big textile mill just outside Moscow the manager, ordered to Stakhanovize, told "girls with strong legs" tending two looms that if they thought they could stand the strain of tending four he would gladly increase their pay so long as they could keep it up. With sweat standing out from every pore one such Heroine of Labor paused long enough to pant at correspondents: "I asked for it! It's hard work...
...galaxy of correspondents and photographers gruff, iron-jawed Communist Party Agent Konstantin Giorgevich Petrov was introduced as "the man who discovered Stakhanov." Asked reporters of Stakhanov: "Do you get many letters? Do people write to you asking about your method of work...
...gets letters from all over-hundreds of letters!" cut in The-Man-Who-Discovered-Stakhanov. "All women want to know if he has really doubled his wages. All men want to know how he has improved technique. Hundreds of letters...