"...by far the best entry into the Soviet industrial scene, from above and from below, presented with remarkable competence and good judgement...[Siegelbaum] helps us understand the organization of labour and problems of stimulation; we learn about norm setting and shop-floor foremen; we get a good historical overview of forms of labour organization and 'socialist competition' through the decade that interests him and we should commend him, in particular, for his knowledge of the labour process in the coal mines where Stakhanovism was invented." Moshe Lewin, Labour/Le Travail

• List of tables; Preface; List of Russian terms and abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Preconditions and precursors: industrial relations 1929–35; 2. From Stakhanov to Stakhanovism; 3. Managers and specialists in the Stakhanovite years; 4. The making of Stakhanovites; 5. Stakhanovites and non-Stakhanovites; 6. Stakhanovites in the cultural mythology of the 1930s; 7. From the Great Purges to the Great Patriotic War: the decline of Stakhanovism; Conclusion; Selected bibliography; Index.

"...by far the best entry into the Soviet industrial scene, from above and from below, presented with remarkable competence and good judgement...[Siegelbaum] helps us understand the organization of labour and problems of stimulation; we learn about norm setting and shop-floor foremen; we get a good historical overview of forms of labour organization and 'socialist competition' through the decade that interests him and we should commend him, in particular, for his knowledge of the labour process in the coal mines where Stakhanovism was invented." Moshe Lewin, Labour/Le Travail

• List of tables; Preface; List of Russian terms and abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Preconditions and precursors: industrial relations 1929–35; 2. From Stakhanov to Stakhanovism; 3. Managers and specialists in the Stakhanovite years; 4. The making of Stakhanovites; 5. Stakhanovites and non-Stakhanovites; 6. Stakhanovites in the cultural mythology of the 1930s; 7. From the Great Purges to the Great Patriotic War: the decline of Stakhanovism; Conclusion; Selected bibliography; Index.

"...by far the best entry into the Soviet industrial scene, from above and from below, presented with remarkable competence and good judgement...[Siegelbaum] helps us understand the organization of labour and problems of stimulation; we learn about norm setting and shop-floor foremen; we get a good historical overview of forms of labour organization and 'socialist competition' through the decade that interests him and we should commend him, in particular, for his knowledge of the labour process in the coal mines where Stakhanovism was invented." Moshe Lewin, Labour/Le Travail

• List of tables; Preface; List of Russian terms and abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Preconditions and precursors: industrial relations 1929–35; 2. From Stakhanov to Stakhanovism; 3. Managers and specialists in the Stakhanovite years; 4. The making of Stakhanovites; 5. Stakhanovites and non-Stakhanovites; 6. Stakhanovites in the cultural mythology of the 1930s; 7. From the Great Purges to the Great Patriotic War: the decline of Stakhanovism; Conclusion; Selected bibliography; Index.