New Soviet man

Worker and Kolkhoz Woman commemorated in a Soviet stamp in Socialist realist style
1920 propaganda poster: "In order to have more, it is necessary to produce more. In order to produce more, it is necessary to know more."
Image of industrial worker on a 1937 stamp

The New Soviet man or New Soviet person[citation needed] (Russian: новый советский человек novy sovetsky chelovek), as postulated by the ideologists of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, was an archetype of a person with specific qualities that were said to be emerging as dominant among all citizens of the Soviet Union, irrespective of the country's cultural, ethnic, and linguistic diversity, creating a single united Soviet people and Soviet nation.[1][2]

  1. ^ Nikolay Ustryalov, From NEP to Soviet Socialism (1934) (text online) (in Russian) [page needed]
  2. ^ Geller, Mikhail (1988). Cogs in the wheel : the formation of Soviet man. New York: Knopf. ISBN 9780394569260.