Word: stakhanovism
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...every comrade knows, Stakhanov was an obscure coal miner who persuaded three other miners to join with him in working as a gang to use their pneumatic drill more efficiently and thus increase production per man. Stakhanov was taken to Moscow, feted by Stalin, loaded with all sorts of presents, including a phonograph with the record Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf, and ever since the whole laboring mass of the Soviet Union has been urged, exhorted, tempted and commanded to emulate Stakhanov. Sluggards who do not want to speed up their work as Stakhanov did, have...
...Except for the Stakhanov homecoming, no pictures in this sequence were posed...
Until an illiterate Russian coal miner named Alexei Stakhanov developed the "speedup" technique which made him dear to Five-Year Plan officials and brought orders from Joseph Stalin that workers throughout Russia must increase their output (TIME, Dec. 16), the most favored Soviet class was the Young Communists for whom nothing in Russia was supposed to be too good...
...again to crowded Moscow from his bleak hut on the Donbas Steppe last week went famed Alexei Stakhanov (TIME, Dec. 16), the shrewd Soviet coal miner who devised a method ("Stakhanovism'') for speeding up the toil of Russian workers. A nationwide intensive labor speed-up for ten days had been decreed by Dictator Joseph Stalin, and at its climax amid great Moscow excitement Stakhanov received the highest Soviet decoration, the Order of Lenin...
Statistics on Soviet production during the "Ten Days Of Stakhanovism" showed that coal production in the Donbas mines, where Stakhanovism was originated by Stakhanov, had not only failed to set a new record but had dropped below the established norm. Comrade Stakhanov's co-workers under ground thus seemed to be either worn out or sulky. Moscow ordered by telegraph "YOU MUST WIPE OUT YOUR DISGRACE." In most cases throughout Russia, statistics showed that during the first five days of nationwide Stakhanovism the workers increased their output, but that it fell during the next five days, as it became...