Socialist Emulation and Stakhanovism

[Zanthorus]

I am interested in these two policies of the USSR. Specifically, how do Marxist-Leninists justify them?

[Ismail]

What's there to justify? Stakhanovism encouraged worker participation in enterprise affairs, condemned bureaucracy, and increased production. Many managers criticized the Stakhanovites because they allegedly "interfered" with industrial work, since they proposed their own plans, pay, etc. and were keen on reporting suspected sabotage in industrial enterprises and basically making the lives of managers hell throughout the Great Purges.

Robert W. Thurston devotes a part to Stakhanovism in his book Life and Terror in Stalin's Russia.

[Zanthorus]

Well from what I've read so far, Stakhanovism was basically Taylorism with a russified name that was used to justify completely unrealistic work quotas and led to a rise in income differentiation. I don't know all that much about it though, which is why I asked.

[Ismail]

Well from what I've read so far, Stakhanovism was basically Taylorism with a russified name that was used to justify completely unrealistic work quotas and led to a rise in income differentiation. I don't know all that much about it though, which is why I asked.http://books.google.com/books?id=BgQpfVi8Z-wC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Life+and+Terror+in+Stalin%27s+Russia&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false

Check out Chapter Six. "Life in the Factories," such as page 175 onwards.