How backward workers became soviet
Industrialization of labour and the politics of efficiency under the Second Five‐Year Plan, 1933–1937
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11933643 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vladimir Andrle (University of York, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 147-169 |
| Publication date | 1985-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0307-1022 • E-ISSN: 1470-1200 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03071028508567618 |
| OpenAlex | W2010382870 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 10 |
The daily round of a Soviet worker in the I 930s took her past many walls adorned with posters depicting people at work. One of these posters might show a construction site, with youthful workers, large cranes and trucks, in the background a spectacular giant of a power station taking shape. Another poster might show a large well-lit factory floor, gleaming machine tools ordered in clean lines, production workers busy in an unhectic but purposeful attitude, behind them a graphical display of production figures. The first type of picture was particularly apposite to the period of the First Five-Year Plan (I928-32), the primary purpose of which was summarized by the slogan 'acquisition of technology': the building of new railways, waterways, power stations, furnaces and factories, and the importation of technology. The second type of picture was particularly apposite to the period of the Second Five-Year Plan (0933-7), the purpose of which was summarized by the slogan 'mastery of technology': the creation of an industrial civilization that would make full use of the expensively acquired technological capacity. The present article is concerned with the meanings and situations on factory shop-floors during the latter period, the 'formative years' of the Soviet industrial culture
Archaeology · Economic history · Economics · Five year plan · Industrialisation · Labour economics · Plan (archaeology · Political science · Politics · European history and politics · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History · Law · Soviet and Russian History
Alexei Gastev and the soviet controversy over Taylorism, 1918–24
Planning for Economic Growth in the Soviet Union, 1918–1932
Efficiency and Effort
Real Wages in Soviet Russia since 1928
Adapting the Immigrant to the Line
The Socialist Market
Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism
Quota Restriction and Goldbricking in a Machine Shop
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,04 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2003 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |