Background
Stakhanov, Aleksei was born on January 3, 1906 in the village of Lugovaia near Orel.
Stakhanov, Aleksei was born on January 3, 1906 in the village of Lugovaia near Orel.
In 1935, became a celebrity for pioneering a movement among workers and peasants to increase productivity. The Stakhanovtsy movement was glorified in the press, books and on film. In reality, it was a propaganda exercise.
Where a few groups of workers were given the best equipment and favourable conditions, they produced much better results than other workers. After Stalin’s death, the artificiality of the movement was admitted, and it was replaced by the so-called Brigady Sotsialisticheskogo Truda (Teams of Socialist Labour).