Udarnik

For other uses, see Udarnik (disambiguation).
Agitprop poster by Vladimir Mayakovsky: "Hurry to join shock brigades!" – Do you want it? Then join. 1. Want to defeat cold? 2. Want to defeat hunger? 3. Want to eat? 4. Want to drink? Hurry, join the advanced exemplary labour group.

In the terminology of the Soviet Union, the Eastern Bloc, and other communist countries, an udarnik (/uːˈdɑːrnɪk/,[1] plural udarniks or udarniki; Russian: уда́рник, IPA: [ʊˈdarnʲɪk]), also known in English as a shock worker[2] or strike worker (collectively known as shock brigades[3] or a shock labor team[4]) is a high productivity worker. It derived from the expression "udarny trud" for "superproductive, enthusiastic labor".[5]

  1. ^ "udarnik". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/OED/3650501751. Retrieved 2024-08-14. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)
  2. ^ Moskvin, V.D., 1970. Development of socialistic competition and the introduction of the Saratov system of defectless [sic] production at the Volga-Don chemical combine. Chemistry and Technology of Fuels and Oils, 6(3), pp.190-192.
  3. ^ Lewis H. Siegelbaum (29 June 1990). Stakhanovism and the Politics of Productivity in the USSR, 1935-1941. Cambridge University Press. p. 51. ISBN 978-0-521-39556-4.
  4. ^ Asia and Africa Today. Asia and Africa Today. 1991. p. 464.
  5. ^ Art and Its Global Histories: A Reader. Oxford University Press. 16 June 2017. p. 309. ISBN 978-1-5261-1992-6.