udarnik

Definitions

A shock worker; a super-productive worker in the Soviet Union and the other countries from the Soviet Bloc.

historical

Equivalents

Examples

“Two short stories … give⟳ a true, warm and unvarnished picture of the formation of the character and consciousness of a young Komsomol worker in the heat of socialist competition and udarnik work⟳.”

“The account that follows appears in the alphabet book and first reader: Udarnik / Stefka Filipova is a weaver … She weaves faster and better than anyone else. For this reason⟳ she is a udarnik.”

“The brigadiers, or udarniki, worked harder, wasted less time and set⟳ an example for their more indolent or less ... Udarniki became a class apart on any job, compensated for their brigadiering by extra rations, priority in the distribution of deficit goods [...]”

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