Stakhanovite movement

The Stakhanov movement (Russian Стахановское движение ) was a Soviet campaign to increase the productivity of labor in the factories, named after Alexei Grigoryevich Stakhanov, who in a coal mine in the Donets Basin in a layer promoted 102 tons of coal on 31 August 1935, and thus the valid labor standard 1457 % higher than fulfilled ("Plan overachievement "). He was referred to as a " Hero of Labour ".

Then the Soviet Union organized a record campaign to increase work performance. Workers were rewarded with perks like better accommodation or food. In protest against the following increases of labor standards, more and more workers of the Stakhanov movement joined, however, not to let the originally intended meaning, but the movement into a mass movement.

Through the development of a mass movement, the Stakhanov movement was trivialized and privileges for workers, over achievements of other standards devalued ( for as many supporters of the movement were simply no concessions available). Nevertheless, the standard increases were not without consequence: the quality of production decreased, the proportion of the Committee rose and the tools and the plants were inadequately maintained.

Initially, the movement was directed not only to workers but also to the operating lines. The voluntary nature of participation, however, very soon degenerated into a slogan of propaganda.

The Hennecke motion (after Adolf Hennecke ) in the GDR had the Stakhanov movement as a model.