The Stakhanovite movement took its name from the Soviet coal miner Alexei Stakhanov (1906-1977), who produced a prodigious amount of coal in a single shift in August 1935. Championed as an example to be followed as the USSR sought to increase labour productivity, the Stakhanovite movement became a state propaganda exercise, but one which had little effect on materially increasing worker output in the longer term.
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