Soviet calendar

The Soviet revolutionary calendar was from 1929 to 1940 in the Soviet Union in use. He is not to be regarded as a separate calendar; Rather, the Gregorian calendar was retained, but complemented by a five- or six-day working week.

Prehistory

The Soviet Union had changed over to Lenin's decision in 1918 by the Julian to the Gregorian calendar, with a jump of 13 days, on February 1, followed by February 14. This calendar was valid until 30 September 1929.

History

From 1 October 1929, the Soviet revolutionary calendar was introduced in its first variant because of a government decree of 24 September 1929. It should be left as anti-religious measure, the seven-day week with a broken five-day work week with 12 months of 30 days each and 5 " überjahreszähligen " non-working days and thus abolish the Christian Sunday as a day of rest. The length of the years and months has been retained.

By eliminating the regular interruption by non- working days, the efficiency of industrial production should be increased. Therefore, all workers were divided into five groups, which were distinguished by color, and each group received one of the new work week days as a day of rest. 80 % of the workers in an enterprise every day were now being used in production, while 20% had their day of rest. Prevent loss of the traditional weekly day of the seven-day week their meaning.

Not as a working day of the week included the following general commemorative or holidays:

• January 22: Lenin Memorial Day; Lenin died on January 21, 1924, the date of the Petersburg Bloody Sunday, it was chosen here
• May 1 and 2: two holidays of the international working
• November 7 and 8: two holidays of the October Revolution

The division into groups made ​​the new regime problematic because it affected the family and social life. The expected increase in production also did not happen.

By 1 December 1931 under a reform of the Soviet revolution calendar by Stalin. A system was introduced, a six -day working week (the Russian name " Schestidnewka " could be analogous to " decade " such as " Tagsechst " translate ) with a common day of rest for all workers on the 6th, 12th, 18th, 24th and 30th of each month (as well as on 1 March ) provided for; were added the above holidays.

1940, came the revolutionary calendar was abolished and the traditional seven-day week. Thus, the complete restoration of the Gregorian calendar. When reasons are given that the tradition of Sunday as a day of rest could not be suppressed in the population and often stayed away from working people both on the official day of rest as well as Sunday work. So the old weekday names were significant again.