In the Soviet Union, someone known as a Stakhanovite was:
A Politburo member
A member of the Soviet workers? elite
A damning witness in one of Stalin?s show trials
A member of the underground opposition to Bolshevism
An elite Red Army commando
A member of the Soviet workers? elite.
In the Soviet Union, someone known as a Stakhanovite was a member of the Soviet workers? elite by virtue of exceeding production norms and was rewarded with special privileges. The Stakhanovite campaign began in 1935 using the example of coal miner Aleksey Grigoriyevich Stakhanov who, by allegedly mining 102 tons of coal in one shift, exceeded and established new production norms. Used in a great propaganda campaign from 1935 to the start of World War II, the higher production norms placed great pressure on other workers and often resulted in quality of goods sacrificed for quantity.
